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MAINE INLAND 

FISH AND GAME LAWS 

1917-18 REVISION 



INLAND 

FISH AND GAME 

LAWS 

State of fIDaine 
LAWS FOR 1917-1918 

(Subject to change by rules and regulations of Com- 
missioners.) 

This book contains all rules and regulations of the 
Commissioners adopted up to the time of going to press, 
June 1, 1917. 

Compiled by the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and 
Game. 

HARRY B. AUSTIN, Chairman. 
Official P. O. Address, 

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FISH LAVC'S 



EXPLA3fATIONS. 
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-> Unless oUterwiae specified, the aeetiona rrfored to in 
^ this book i&eaa seetio&s of Chapter 3S of the Revised 

Statutes, as amended by Chapter 21& of the Piiblie Laws 
of iai7. , 

B. and B. of Commlsslofiers means Boles and Begnla- 
tlons of the Commissioners which hare the force of law, 
having been adopted in accordance with law. 

The Legislature of 1017 revised and consolidated the 
public inland fish and game laws and under the revised 
co<le of laws, wliich takes effect July 7th, 1^17, all private 
and special laws hereafter wiQ be promnlgated by the 
Commissioners. 

AH mles and regulations of the Commission's which 
were in force on AprU 7th were repealed, but many of 
them, as will be noted, will appear in the revised code o* 
rules and regulations, promulgated by the Commissions 
under special ord^" of the Legislature, which is givea in 
this book. (See pages 5 to 28.) 

Notices are not now required to be posted on banks of 
waters closed by the Commissioners, although they have 
authority to post notices in cases wh^re they deem it 



FISH LAWS 

DErXNITIOyS. 

Seasoa'* and **Tribmtari«»'' Deftned. 

SectkHK U. The words -close-i season" a.^ iL^^etl in zhbi 
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&A aad fii&ways down to tide-i 



GENERAL, CLOSED SEASON ON PROTECTED FISH. 

Section 18. Except as hereinafter provided, there shall 
be an annual closed season on landlocked salmon, trout, 
togue, white perch and black bass, in all the lakes and 
ponds of the state, as follows: 

On landlocked salmon, trout and togue, from the 
thirtieth day of September until the ice is out of the lake 
or pond fished in the following spring; on white perch 
and black bass from the thirtieth day of September until 
the twentieth day of June following; provided, however, 
that it shall be lawful to take black bass, with unbaited 
artificial flies only, from the time the ice is out of the 
lake or pond fished in the spring until the twentieth day 
of June following; provided, further, that any person who 
catches a white perch, while lawfully trolling, in good 
faith, for landlocked salmon, trout or togue, duriny: closed 
season on white perch, may lawfully keep the same, but 
no person shall in any one day keep more than six white 
perch so caught ; provided, further, that in Sebago lake 
and Long pond, in Cumberland county, the annual closed 
season on landlocked salmon, trout and black bass shall 
be from the first day of October to the thirty-first day of 
March of the following year, both days inclusive, and in 
Thompson pond, situated in Androscoggin, Cumberland 
and Oxford counties, the annual closed season on land- 
locked salmon, trout and togue shall be from September 
first to January first of the following year. In the brooks, 
streams ■ and rivers of the state, above tide waters, the 
annual closed season on trout, salmon and landlocked 
salmon shall be from September fifteenth to the time the 
ice is out of the brook, stream or river fished in the fol- 
lowing spring ; on black bass and white perch from 
September fifteenth to June twentieth of the following year. 
Provided, however, that landlocked salmon and trout may 
be caught by artificial fiy until October first in Moose 
river, between Moosehead Lake and Brassua Lake, In 
Somerset county. 



ICE FISHING LAWS. 

Provided, further, that during February, March and 
April, in the counties of Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, 
Somerset, Washington and Hancock, and during February 
and March in the counties of Androscoggin, Kennebec, 
York, Sagadahoc, Knox, Lincoln, Waldo, Cumberland, 



Oxford and Franklin, citizens of the state may fish for 
and take landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch and 
black bass with not more than five set lines to each . 
family when fishing through the ice in the day time and 
when under the immediate personal supervision of the 
person fishing and may convey them to their own homes 
for consumption therein but not otherwise. 

Provided, further, that it shall be unlawful to fish 
through the ice at any time for any other species of fish 
except as hereinafter provided : 

Pickerel may be taken at any time through the ice in 
waters open to ice fishing for landlocked salmon, trout, 
togue, white perch and black bass, with not more than 
five set lines to each family when fishing through the ice 
in the day time and when under the immediate personal 
supervision of the person fishing. 

(See penalty in Sec. 21, p. 30.) 

PRIVATE AND SPECIAL, FISH LAWS. 

List of Waters Closed to Ice Fishing, to all Fishing, and 
Waters on Which There Are Special Restrictions as to 
Manner of Fishing and Daily Limit of Fish which May 
Be Taken. 

In conformity with Order of the 78th Legislature, the 
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game, on June 1st, 
1917, promulgated the following Code of Rules and Regula- 
tions relating to fishing in the several counties. , 

These regulations, which embody many private and 
special laws previously in force and former Rules and 
Regulations of the Commissioners and private and special 
laws recommended by the last Legislature, take effect on 
July 7th, 1917, and will remain in force for a period of four 
years, unless modified or repealed by said Commissioners. 

(Note. All private and special laws and Rules and 
Regulations of the Commissioners previously in force which 
are not incorporated in the following Code, are repealed.) 

ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY. 

ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in the following named and 



specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other waters, in 
Androscoggin county, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers wholly or partly in An- 
droscoggin county EXCEPT Androscoggin Lake, (partly in 
Kennebec county). Moose Hill Pond in East Livermore, 
Hooper Pond in Greene, and Lake Auburn. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Androscoggin county are closed 
to all fishing, namely : 

The tributaries to Lake Auburn, including all of that 
part of Townsend Brook above a point five rods below the 
bridge on the Turner road; to Round and Long Ponds in 
Livermore ; to Taylor Pond in Auburn ; to Pickerel (or 
Beals) Pond in Turner; to Hooper Pond in Greene. 

LAKES AND PONDS. 

Moose Hill Pond in East Livermore. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Hooper Pond in Greene is closed to all fishing from 
October 1st until the ice is out in the spring. 

AROOSTOOK COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February, March and April of each year, in accordance 
with the general law of the State, in the following named 
and specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other 
waters, in Aroostook county, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Aroostook county 
EXCEPT Ross and Cary lakes in Littleton. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 
BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Aroostook county are closed to 
all fishing, namely : 

That part of Presque Isle Stream above Grindstone, in 
Chapman Plantation, and all the tributaries to said Presque 



Isle stream EXCEPT the North Branch of said stream, 
commonly called the Mapleton Branch, the East Branch 
and Burnt Land Brook ; the inlet stream of Squawpan 
lake and the East branch of said inlet stream above 
Thomas Thibodeau's lower landing; Violette Brook in Van 
Buren above Hammond's mill; Dyer Brook, a tributary to 
the West branch of Mattawamkeag River; Whitney Brook, 
or Beaver Dam Brook, so-called, a tributary to Mattawam- 
keag lake, and the tributaries to said brook ; Palmer Brook, 
Trueworthy brook, Allen brook and Marshall brook, tribu- 
taries to Prestile stream, in Westfield. 



SPECIAI. REGUI.ATIONS. 

No person shall take, catch or kill "any FROGS at any 
time in Big Fish Lake, Portage Lake, Square Lake, Eagle 
Lake, Long Lake, Soldier Pond, or in any of the tributaries 
to said lakes or pond, except for domestic use in the family 
of the person taking the same. 



CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months of 
February and March of each year, in accordance with the 
general law of the State, in the. following named and speci- 
fied lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other waters, in 
Cumberland county, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Cumberland county 
EXCEPT Island pond in Harrison (and in Waterford in 
Oxford county). Otter Pond in Bridgton, Peabody Pond In 
Naples and Sebago, Sabbathday, Thomas, Panther and 
Anonymous Ponds and Little Sebago Lake. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Cumberland countv are closed 
to all fishing: 

North Branch Brook and its tributaries; the tributaries 
to Island Pond in Harrison, (and in Waterford, in Oxford 
county) ; Sawyer's Brook, a tributary to Elkins Brook, 
wholly or partly in Cumberland county; that part of 



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Sebtigo Lake, or Sougo River, so-called, between the bar 
opposite Thompson's camps and Songo Lock; the tribu- 
taries to Sebago Lake, EXCEPT Songo River above Songo 
Lock, 

LAKES AND PONDS. 

Island rend in Harrison, (and in VVaterford in Oxford 
county) ; Otter Pond in Bridgton. 

FRANKLIN COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

The following waters, and no others, in Franklin County, 
shall be open to ice fishing for pickerel at any time, and 
for protected game fish during the months of February and 
March of each year, in accordance with the general law 
of the State : 

Drury Pond in Temple and Walton's Mill Pond in Farm- 
ington, and all the lakes and ponds situated wholly in the 
town of Chesterville. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Franklin County are closed to 
all fishing : 

The tributaries to Bigelow Pond in Wyman Town 

To Clearwater Pond in Farmington and Industry 

To Dodge Pond in Rangeley 

To Button Pond in Kingfield 

To Four Ponds in Townships D and E 

To Kennebago Lake 

To Long Pond in Sandy River Plantation 

To Mirror Lake (or Parkis Pond) situated wholly or 
partly in Jay and Chesterville 

To Mooselookmeguntic Lake 

To Mud Pond, wholly or partly in Jay 

To Mud Pond in Tim Pond Town 

To Rangeley Lake 

To Round Pond in Rangeley 

To Saddleback Lake, formerly called Dead River Pond, 
in Dallas Plantation 

To Sandy River pond in Sandy River Plantation 

To Staples Pond in Temple 



To Tim Poiul iu T. 2. R. 4 (Tim Pond Town) 

To Tufts Pond in Kingfield 

To Varnuni (or Nortli) Pond in Temple and Wilton 

To Webb's Pond in Weld and Carthage EXCEPT Alder 
Brook above the Mill Dam at Hildreth's Mills 

Big Inlet Brook in Stetson Town 

Blanchard Brook in Davis Town 

Bog Stream, the outlet of Mirror Lake, and its tribu- 
taries, down as far as North Pond Stream 

Coos Brook, a tributary to Wilson Lake, in Wilton, below 
the Wilkins bridge 

The outlet of Dutton Pond, in Kingfield, down to Reeds 
Falls 

Flatiron Brook in Davis Town 

Holland Brook, a tributary to Wilson Lake, in Wilton, 
below its junction with Coos Brook 

John's Pond Stream, a tributary to Kennebago Stream 

Kemankeag Brook, a tributary to Kennebago Stream 

Norton Brook in Stetson Town 

Otter Brook in Stetson Town 

Seven Mile Brook and tributaries, in Jay, Wilton and 
Carthage, (and in Dixfield in Oxford County) above the 
Leland Iron Bridge in Jay 

The outlet of Tufts Pond down to Alder Stream 

Whetstone Brook, a tributary to Kennebago Stream 

Wilber Brook in Davis Town 

LAKES AND PONDS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

Bent's Pond in New Sharon (and in Vienna in Kennebec 
County) 

Mirror Lake (or Parkis Pond) situated wholly or partly 
in Chesterville 

Mud Pond, partly in Chesterville 

Staples Pond in Temple 

(See also Trout Pond under Special Regulations.)) 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Alder Stream in Alder Stream Town, and tributaries, fly 
fishing only ; daily limit, ten trout and land-locked salmon 
in all. 

Blanchard Pond, in Stetson Town and Lang Plantation, 
fly fishing only : daily limit, 10 trout and land-locked 
salmon in all. (See additional regulations also — Page 12.) 



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Cow Pond, in Davis Town and Dallas Plantation, fly 
fishing and trolling only; daily limit for a person or occu- 
pants of one boat, 5 pounds of trout and land-locked 
salmon in all, or one fish. 

It is unlawful for any person to carry away or transport 
any fish taken in said Cow Rond, except fish legally taken 
in said pond may be transported fr©m the place caught to 
a lodge, camp, dwelling house or hotel situated on the 
shores of said pond, or to a licensed taxidermist in this 
State for mounting only. 

Dodge Pond, in Rangeley, fly fishing and trolling only ; 
daily limit, six fish in all. 

Dutton Pond, in Kingfield, daily limit, ten trout and 
land-locked salmon in all. 

Grindstone Pond, in Kingfield, ten trout and land-locked 
salmon in all. 

Gull Pond, in Dallas Plantation, fly fishing only; daily 
limit, six fish in all. 

Haley Pond, in Rangeley and Dallas Plantation, fly 
fishing only; dally limit, six fish in all. 

Jim Brook, wholly or partly in Jtm Pond Town, fly 
fishing only; daily limit, ten trout and land-locked salmon 
in all. 

John's Pond, in Davis Town, daily limit ten fish in all, 
(See additional regulations — Page 12.) 

Kennebago Lake, in Davis and Stetson Towns, daily limit 
ten fish in all. (See additional regulations — Page 12.) 

Kennebago Stream, from time ice is out until Oct. 1st, 
during the hours from dawn to dark, fly fishing permitted 
from Indian Rock to Big Fall«; daily limit, two fish when 
accompanied by a registered guide. (See additional regula- 
tions—Page 12.) 

Little Kennebago Lake, in Stetson Tow«n, dally limit ten 
fish. (See additional regulations — Page 12.) 

Little Kennebago Stream, from time ice is out until 
Oct. 1, fly flshing only; daily limit, ten fish in all. (See 
additional regulations — Page 12.) 

Loon Lake, in Rangeley and in Dallas Plantation, fly 
flshing and trolling only ; daily limit for a person or occu- 
pants of one boat, five pounds of trout and land-locked 
salmon in all, or one fish. 

It is unlawful for any person to carry away or transport 
any fish taken in said Loon Lake except fish legally taken 
in said lake may be transported from the place where 
caught t® a lodge, camp, dwelling-house or hotel situated 
on the shores of said lake, or to a licensed taxidermist in 
this State for mounting only. 



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Mud Pond, in T. 2, R. 4, (Tim Pond Town) fly fishing 
only; not over ten fish can be carried away from said pond 
in any one day and not over 30 in a season, no fish of any 
kind can be used for bait when fishing in this pond. 

North Branch of Dead River, from Eustis Dam to Chain 
of Ponds Dam, fly fishing only ; daily limit, ten trout and 
salmon in all. 

Quimby Pond, in Rangeley, fly fishing only ; daily limit, 
six fish. 

Rangeley Stream, the outlet of Rangeley Lake, from the 
sign at the old wharf near the head of said stream down 
to the dam across said sti-eam and from the upper end of 
the dead water to Indian Rock, fiy fishing only, from time 
ice is out until Oct. 1st; daily limit, one fish. 

Ross pond, in Rangeley, daily limit, six fish in all. 

Round Mountain Lake, in Alder Stream Town, fly fishing 
only; daily limit, 10 trout and salmon in all. 

Round Pond in Rangeley, and the Logans or Lagoons on 
the tributaries to same, fly fishing only; daily limit, six 
fish. 

Saddleback Mountain Ponds, in Sandy River PI., fly 
fishing only ; daily limit, six fish. 

Saddleback Lake, formerly called Dead River Pond, in 
Dallas Plantation; daily limit, 10 trout. 

It is unlawful for any person to carry away or trans- 
port any fish taken in said lake, except fish legally taken 
in said lake may be transported from the place where 
caught to a lodge, camp, dwelling-house or hotel situated 
on the shore of said lake, or to a licensed taxidermist in 
this State for mounting only ; provided, however, that a 
person may carry to his home in one day five fish, or not 
more than three pounds of fish (unless an individual fish 
exceeds three pounds in weight) which, he has legally 
taken in said lake. 

Seven Ponds Stream, in Seven Ponds Town and Stetson 
Town, daily limit, ten fish in all (See additional regulations 
—Page 12.) 

Stratton Brook and tributaries, in Eustis, Coplin and 
Wyman, daily limit 15 fish. 

Tea Brook, in Jim Pond Town and Eustis, fly fishing 
only; daily limit, ten trout and land-locked salmon in all. 

Tim Pond, T. 2, R. 4, W. B. K. P., (Tim Pond Town) 
fly fishing only, not over ten fish can be carried away from 
said pond in any one day and not over 30 in a season ; no 
fish of any kind can be used for bait when fishing in this 
pond. 



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Tim Brook wholly or partly in Tim Pond Town, fly 
fishing only; daily limit 10 trout and land-locked salmon 
in all in one day. 

Trout Pond, in Madrid, Closed to all fishing from Sept. 
15th until ice is out in spring; fly fishing only; daily limit, 
6 fish in all. 

Tufts Pond, in Kingfleld, daily limit, ten trout and land- 
locked salmon in all. 

SPECIAL. REGULATIONS ON ALL, WATERS IN DAVIS, 
STETSON AND SEVEN PONDS TOWNSHIPS AND 
MASSACHUSETTS GORE. 

It shall be unlawful for any person to fish for, take, 
catch or kill any kind of fish at any time except with un- 
baited artificial flies in the usual manner, or carry away or 
transport any fish so taken in any of the waters in Davis, 
Stetson, or Seven Ponds Townships and Massachusetts 
Gore, except fish so taken in said waters may be trans- 
ported from the place where caught to a lodge, camp, 
dwelling house or hotel situated in the above named terri- 
tory. Provided, however, a person may carry to his home 
in one day 5 fish, or not more than 3 pounds of fish (unless 
an individual fish exceeds 3 pounds in weight) which he 
has legally taken in Kennebago and Little Kennebago 
lakes and in Little Kennebago stream, or in the portion of 
Kennebago stream open to fishing. 

HANCOCK COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected fish during the months of 
February, March and April of each year, in accordance 
with the general law of the State, in the following named 
and specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other 
waters, in Hancock county, namely : 

All lakes, ponds and rivers in Hancock county, except 
Turtle and Narraguagus Lakes,* Noyes Pond in Bluehill, 
Craig's and Heart's Ponds in Orland, and Blunt's Pond in 
Lamoine. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following w^aters in Hancock county are closed to all 
fishing, namely : 



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The tributaries to Bubble Pond or Turtle Lake, on Mount 
Desert Island; to Eagle Lake, on Mt. Desert Island; to 
Hothole Pond in Orland ; Upper Patten Pond Brook in 
Orland ; McCaslin Brook and Turtle Pond Brook, tributaries 
to White's Pond, in Penobscot. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

It is unlawful to take smelts at any time in Succor Brook 
in Orland, or to take any trout, land-locked salmon or 
white perch, at any time, within one-hundred feet of the 
dam, or sluice-gates at the outlet of Nicatous Lake, in 
T. 3, N. D. x^ 

KENNEBEC COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in the following named and 
specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other waters, 
in Kennebec county, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Kennebec county 
EXCEPT Cobbosseecontee, Maranacook, Wilson, Echo, Po- 
casset and Annabessacook Lakes and Cochnewagon, Great, 
East, Long, North, Little, Ellis, McGraw, Snow. Narrows, 
Flying and Parker Ponds; Pleasant Pond in West Gar- 
diner, Litchfield and Gardiner, (and in Richmond, Saga- 
dahoc County) ; Mud Pond in Litchfield and Richmond ; 
Jimmy Pond in Litchfield, Horseshoe and Ox-Bow Ponds in 
West Gardiner, Tilton, David and Basin Ponds in Fayette, 
Berry Pond in Winthrop and Wayne, and Bents Pond in 
Vienna (and in New Sharon, Franklin county) ; or in 
Lovejoy Pond in Albion, except on Thursday of each week, 
and provided, further, that it shall be unlawful for any 
person to take, catch and kill more than ten fish in all in 
any one day in said pond while fishing through the ice. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 
BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Kennebec county are closed to 
all fishing, namely : 

The tributaries to Flying pond in Vienna EXCEPT 
Sucker brook above Whittier dam; to Jimmy pond in 



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Litchfield; to Great, Long, East, North, Little, Ellis, 
McGraw and Snow Ponds (EXCEPT Belgrade stream, a 
tributary to Snow Pond, up as far as Belgrade bridge;) 
to Cobbosseecontee Lake ; to Lake Maranacook ; to Parker 
Pond; to Berry Pond in Winthrop and Wayne; to Pattee's 
Pond or in Wilson Brook or in any of its tributaries, in 
Winslow; Cunningham Brook in Litchfield; Fifteen Mile 
Stream and its tributaries (situated partly in Waldo 
county), 

LAKES AND PONDS. 

Little Pond in Rome; Bents Pond in Vienna (and in New 
Sharon, Franklin county.) 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Not more than ten fish can be taken in one day in Love- 
joy Pond in Albion. 

(See also Mud Pond and Mirror Lake (or Parkis Pond) 
and tributaries, and Bog Stream and tributaries, partly in 
Franklin County.) 

KNOX COUNTY. 

ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in the following named and 
specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other waters, in 
Knox county, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Knox county, EXCEPT 
Crystal Lake in Washington, Fresh Pond in North Haven, 
and Lily Pond in Rockport, 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 
BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Knox county are closed to all 
fishing, namely : 

The tributaries to Norton Pond ; to Alford's Lake in 
Hope; to Lermond's Pond in Hope and Union; to Canaan 
Lake In Knox and Waldo counties; to Crystal Lake in 
Washington, 

LAKES AND PONDS. 

Fresh Pond in North Haven. 



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LINCOLN COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING liAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in the following named and 
specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other waters, in 
Lincoln county, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Lincoln county, except 
Dyers Pond and Little Dyers Pond in Jefferson. 

OXFORD COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in the following named and 
specified lakes and ponds, but in no other waters, in 
Oxford County, namely : 

In Barker Pond partly in Cumberland County 

Bear Pond in Waterford 

Beaver Pond in Denmark 

Biekford Pond in Porter 

Bird Pond in Norway 

Black Pond in Fryeburg 

Bog Pond in Fryeburg 

Bradley Pond in Lovell 

Bungamuck Pond in Hai:tford 

Burntland Pond in Albany 

Burnt Meadow Pond in Brownfield 

Chapman Pond in Porter 

Charles Pond in Fryeburg 

Clay Pond in Fryeburg 

The Two Clemens Ponds in Hiram 

Colcord Pond in Porter 

Crocker Pond in Albany 

Cushman Pond in Lovell 

Dan Charles Pond in Lovell 

Farrington Pond in Lovell 

Grandeur Poad in Denmark 

Haley Pond in Fryeburg 

Half Moon or .Jenne Pond in Mexico, (and in Carthage, 
Franklin Co.) 



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Hogan Pond in Oxford 
Horseshoe Pond in Lovell and Stonelium 
Horseslaoe Pond in Stonebam 
Jaybird Pond in Hiram 
Keyes Pond in Sweden 

The Five Kezar Ponds in Waterford and Lovell 
Lower Kimball Pond, situated wholly or partly in Frye- 
burg 

Kneeland Pond in Albany 

Labrador Pond in Sumner 

Little Labrador Pond in Sumner 

Little Pond in Denmark 

Little Pond in Fryeburg 

Long Pond in Denmark 

Long Pond in Porter 

Long Pond in Waterford 

Lovewell's Pond, situated wholly or partly in Fryeburg 

McWain's Pond in Waterford 

Middle Pond in Hiram 

Moose Pond in Denmark 

Moose Pond in Paris 

Moose Pond in Waterford 

Mud Pond in Paris 

North Pond in Norway 

North Pond in Greenwood and Woodstock 

Papoose Pond in Waterford 

Plains Pond in Porter 

Pleasant Pond, in Fryeburg, Denmark and Brownfleld 

Pleasant Pond in Sumner 

Proctor Pond in Albany and Stoneham 

Rattlesnake Pond in Browntteld 

Round Pond in Greenwood and Woodstock 

Roxbury Pond in Roxbury and Byron 

Sand Pond in Denmark 

Shell Pond in Stow and Stoneham 

Slab City Pond in Lovell 

Songo Pond in Albany 

Southeast Pond, partly in Cumberland County ■ 

The Two Spectacle Ponds in Porter 

Two Spec Pond in Waterford 

The Three Stanley Ponds in Hiram and Porter 

Stearns Pond in Sweden 

Trafton Pond in Hiram and Porter 

Virginia Lake in Stoneham 

Webber Pond in Sweden 

Whitney Pond in Oxford 



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Lower Kezar Pond in Fryeburg (and in Bridgton, Cum- 
berland County) for blaclv bass and pickerel only. 

Lake Kezar, in Lovell, Stoneham and Stow, for pickerel, 
cusk and smelts only. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

The Following Waters in Oxford County Are Closed to 
AH Fishing: 

. BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The tributaries to Aziscohos Lake 

To B Pond in Upton 

To the Beaver Ponds in Lincoln Plantation and in Magal- 
loway Plantation 

To Bryant's Pond, situated partly in Woodstock 

To C Pond in Township C Surplus 

To Dead Cambridge River, in Upton and Township C 
Surplus, except Swift Cambridge River 

To Garland Pond in Byron 

To Indian Pond in Greenwood 

To Lake Kezar, in Lovell, Stoneham and Stow, above the 
dead water 

To Kezar River north of Calderwood bridge in Lovell 
and Sweden 

To the Magalloway River above Aziscohos Dam 

To Marshall Pond, wholly or partly in Oxford 

To Mooselookmeguntic Lake 

To North Pond in Woodstock 

To Parmachenee Lake 

To Pennesseewassee Lake in Norway 

To Little Pennesseewassee Lake in Norway 

To Pickerel Pond in Denmark 

To Rattlesnake Pond in Brownfield 

To Round Pond in Greenwood 

To Shagg Pond in Woodstock 

To South Pond in Greenwood 

To Songo Pond in Albany 

To Twitchell Pond in Greenwood 

To Upper and Lower Richardson Lakes 

To the Two East Richardson Ponds, in T. 4, R. 2 (Adams 
Town) 

To the Two West Richardson Ponds, in Adams Town 

To Worthley Pond in Peru 

Cushman Brook in Hebron, a tributary to Middle Branch 
Brook 



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Brook Kedar and its tributaries, the Kingman and 
Plummer Brooks, in Waterford 

(See Seven Mile Brook and tributaries, Fk. So.) 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

Abbott Pond in Sumner, daily limit, two trout and land- 
locked salmon in all. 

B Pond in Upton, fly fishing only ; daily limit, ten fish 
in all. 

Beaver Ponds in Magalloway Plantation, fly fishing only ; 
daily limit, ten fish. 

Dead Cambridge River, in Upton and Township C 
Surplus, from Umbagog Lake to C Pond, fly fishing only. 

Ellis River and tributaries, in Andover, Andover West, 
North Surplus, Roxbury and Ts. C and D, lawful to fish 
only on Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays. 

It is unlawful for any person to fish in any of the 
tributaries to Cupsuptic lake, except in Cupsuptic river and 
its tributaries, above the foot of the first falls near its 
mouth, from May 1st to July 1st, and from the mouth of 
said river at high water mark to Little Falls, from Sept. 
15th to Sept. 30th, fly fishing only. 

Little Concord Pond, in Woodstock, daily limit two trout 
and land-locked salmon in all. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time from the mouth of 
Metalluc Brook, a tributary to Upper Richardson Lake, out 
as far as the island, except in the ordinary way of casting 
with artificial files. 

(See Island Pond under Cumberland County.) 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS ON WATERS IN MAGAL- 
LOWAY REGION. 

No person shall fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of 
flS'h at any time, in Aziscohos lake or in Parmachenee lake 
or in Long Pond or in the Magalloway River above Azis- 
cohos dam, in Oxbow town. Bowman town, Parmachenee 
town, Lynch town and Parker town, and in Lincoln plan- 
tation and in Magalloway plantation, except by the ordinary 
method of casting with artificial files or fly fishing. No 
person shall take, catch or kill in any one day more than 
five pounds of fish in all, or not more than ten fish even 
though the ten fish caught and killed weigh less than five 
pounds, in said Aziscohos Lake, Parmachenee Lake, Long 
Pond, the Magalloway River above Aziscohos dam; nor 



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shall any person have in possession in any one day, more 
than five pounds of fish in all, or not exceeding ten fish, 
even though they weigh less than five pounds, taken in 
said waters. No resident of this State shall carry away or 
transport in any one day more than five pounds of fish, or 
not more than one fish if it exceeds five pounds in weight, 
taken in any of said waters; nor shall any non-resident 
carry away or transport, in any one day, more than three 
pounds of fish, or not more than one fish if it exceeds three 
pounds in weight, taken in any of said waters, except that 
fish legally taken in said waters may be transported from 
the place where caught to a lodge, camp, dwelling house or 
hotel situated in the above named territory. 

Overset Pond, in Greenwood, daily limit, five trout and 
land-locked salmon in all. 

In the pool at Upper Dam and in the River leading from 
said pool to Upper Richardson Lake and in Rapid River 
between Lower Richardson and Umbagog Lakes and In 
Pond-in-the-River, so-called, it shall be lawful to fish with 
artificial flies only until October 1st of each year ; pro- 
vided, further, that in Pond-in-the-River, it shall be lawful 
to fish with bait from the time the ice goes out of said 
pond in the spring until July 1st following of each year. 

The two East Richardson Ponds and the Two West Rich- 
ardson Ponds, in T. 4, R. 2, (Adamstown) fly fishing only; 
daily limit, ten fish in all. 

Shagg Pond, in Woodstock, daily limit, two trout and 
land-locked salmon in all. 

Ward's Pond and Ward's Brook in Fryeburg closed to 
fishing except during May, June and July of each year. 

PENOBSCOT COUNTY. 

ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months of 
February, March and April of each year, in accordance 
with the general law of the State, in the following named 
and specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other 
waters, in Penobscot County, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Penobscot county EX- 
CEPT Passadumkeag River (or Passadumkeag Stream) 
above Lowell's Dam in Penobscot and Hancock counties; 
Cold Stream Pond in Enfield. Ware Pond in Lee. Davis 



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Pond in Township 5, Range 7, W. E. L. S., Bowlin, 
Kimball and Messer Ponds in Township 5, Range S, and 
Lunksoos Pond in Township 4, Range 7; provided, further, 
that no person can take, catch and kill more than 5 fish in 
all through the ice in any one day in Brewer Pond in 
Orrington and Holden (and Bucksport, Hancock county), 
Stetson Pond in Stetson (for pickerel, black bass and white 
perch only). 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 
BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Penobscot county are closed to 
all fishing, namely : 

The tributaries to Lumbert Lake in Springfield and in 
Lakeville Plantation; Wallace Brook in Carroll, a tributary 
to Shaw Lake; Lowell Brook in Lakeville plantation, a 
tributary to Duck Lake; Dill Brook in Lakeville plantation, 
a tributary to Bottle Lake; Getchell Brook in Lakeville 
plantation, a tributary to Duck Lake, from the mouth of 
said brook up to the head of Muzzy Meadows, one mile 
from Duck Lake; Smelt Brook, a tributary to Cold Stream 
Pond, in Enfield; Sebasticook River from the fish screen or 
Middle bridge to Sebasticook Lake; Booker Brook in 
Levant. 

LAKES AND PONDS. 

Stetson Pond, in Stetson, except for pickerel, black bass 
and white perch. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

It is unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of 
fish in Sunkhaze Stream, in the toAvns of Greenfield and 
Milford, and in T. 32, Hancock County, or in any of the 
tributaries to said stream, except from the first day of May 
of each year to the first day of August following, except 
it shall be lawful to take pickerel in Sunkhaze meadows, 
so-called. 

In addition to the closed season on white perch now pro- 
vided by the general law of the State, it shall be unlawful 
for any person to fish for, take, catch or kill any white 
perch In Lake Sebasticook from the 20th day of June to 
the 30th day of June, both days inclusive, of each year; it 
shall also be unlawful to fish for, take, catch or kill any 



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kind of fish at any time within one hundred feet of the 
Corinna bridge, so-called, on Corinna stream, a tributary 
to Lake Sebasticook, or within one hundred feet of the 
Durham bridge, so-called, on Stetson Stream, a tributary 
to said Lake Sebasticook. 

PISCATAQUIS COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February, Mar^h and April of each year, in accordance 
with the general law of the State, in the following named 
nil 1 specified lakes and ponds, but in no other waters, in 
Piscataquis County, namely : 

The following named lakes and ponds in Piscataquis 
County : 

Allagash Lake 

Ambejejus Lake 

The Bennett Ponds in Guilford 

Big Benson Pond 

Little Benson Pond 

Big Huston Pond 

Caribou Lake 

Caucomogomuc Lake 

Center Pond 

Chamberlain Lake 

Chemquassabamticook Lake 

Chesuncook Lake 

Churchill Lake 

The Four Davis Ponds in Guilford and Willimantic 

'Debsconeag Lake 

Eagle Lake 

Ebemee Lake 

First Buttermilk Pond 

Fourth Buttermilk Pond 

Grand Lake 

Large Greenwood Pond in Guilford and "Willimantic 

Lake Hebron in Monson 

Joe Mary Lake 

Kingsbury Pond (partly in Somerset County) 

Lobster Lake 

Millinocket Lake 

Moosehead Lake 

Munsungan Lake 



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Nahmakanta Lake 

Pemadumcook Lake 

Piper Fond in Abbot 

Ragged Lake 

Schoodic Lake 

Sebec Lake 

Seboeis Lake 

Second Lake 

Telos Lake 

North Twin Lake 

South Twin Lake 

Webster Lake 

Whetstone Pond in Kingsbury and Blanchard 

Harlow Pond in Parkman (for pickerel only) 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL, FISHING 

AND 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

The following waters in Piscataquis County are closed 
to all fishing, namely : 

The tributaries to Moosehead Lake except Moose River; 
to Ship Pond Stream ; to Upper Wilson Pond ; to Lower 
Wilson Pond ; provided, further, that the stream connecting 
said ponds shall be construed to be a tributary to said 
Lower Wilson Pond down as far as low water mark in 
Lower Wilson Pond at the mouth of said stream; Long 
Pond Stream ; Ship Pond Stream above Bucks Falls ; Davis 
Stream in Willimantic below Hathaway Brook; Vaughan 
Stream, a tributary to Long Pond Stream; or in Wilson 
Stream, a tributary to Sebec Lake, up to Toby Falls. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

It is unlawful to fish in Rum Pond, in Greenville and 
Township Number Eight, Range Ten, N. W. P., except from 
July 15th of each year until September 30th following, 
both days inclusive; or in Garland Pond in Foxcroft and 
Sebec except from June 1st of each year to September first 
following; or in Horseshoe Pond, in West Bowdoin College 
Township, except from July 1st of each year until Sep- 
tember 30th following, both days inclusive; or in Sourdna- 
hunk Lake, in Townships Four and Five, Range Ten, and 
Townships Four and Five, Range Eleven, W. E. L. S., 
except in the ordinary way of casting with artificial flies 



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or fly fishing: provided, flirther, that the annual closed 
season on the North Inlet of Kokad-jo River, between first 
and second Kokad-jo Ponds, shall commence on September 
first of each year. 



SAGADAHOC COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING I.AWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in the following named and 
specified lakes, ponds and rivers, but in no other waters, in 
Sagadahoc county, namely : 

All the lakes, ponds and rivers in Sagadahoc county, 
except Pleasant and Mud Ponds, partly in Kennebec 
County. 

SPECIAI. REGUI.ATIONS. 

It shall be unlawful to fish in the territory southerly of 
the land formerly owned by Robert Reed on the southerly 
point of Swan Island to high water mark on the shores 
thereof. 



SOMERSET COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING I.AWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February. March and April of each year, in accordance 
with the general law of the State, in the following named 
and specified river, lakes and ponds, but in no other waters, 
in Somerset County, namely : 

Barker Pond in Cornville 

Brassua Lake 

Lower Cold Stream Pond in T. 2. R. 6. and Ts. 2 and 3, 
R. 7, B. K. P. W. K. R. 

Dead Stream Pond in TTest Forks Plantation 

Dexter Pond in Ripley 

Douglass Pond in Palmyra 

Ellis Pond in Ten Thousand Acre Township 

Great Embden Pond 

Fahi Pond In Embden 



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Lake George 

Gilman Pond in Lexington and New Portland 

Half Moon Pond in Ripley (and in Dexter, Penobscot 
County) 

Horseshoe Pond in Ten Thousand Acre Tract 

Little Indian Pond in Ripley 

Big Indian Pond in St. Albans 

The Kennebec River in Somerset County 

Kingsbury Pond in Brighton and Mayfield 

Long Pond in Long Pond Plantation 

Martin (or Long Pond) in the Forks Plantation 

Mayfield Pond in Mayfield 

Great Moose Lake in Hartland and Harmony 

Moosehead Lake 

Morrill Pond in Hartland 

Mud Pond in Hartland 

Oaks Pond in Skowhegan 

Palmer Pond in Mayfield 

Pickerel Pond in Flagstaff 

Round Pond in Ten Thousand Acre Township 

Ripley (or Rogers) Pond in Ripley 

Rowell Pond in Solon 

Sanidy Pond in Embden 

Sibley Pond in Canaan 

Smith Pond in Cornville 

Lake Spiteful (or Black Hill Pond, so-called) in Embden 

Stafford Pond in Hartland 

Starbird Pond in Hartland 

Ten Thousand Acre Pond in Ten Thousand Acre Town- 
ship 

Weeks Pond in Brighton 

Big Wood Pond in Jackman, Attean and Dennistown 

Wyman Pond in Brighton 

Wesserunsett (or Hay den) Lake 



WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 
BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

It is unlawful to fish at any time in any of the folIOAving 
named waters: 

Bean Brook, a tributary to Parlin Stream 

The outlet of Nichols Pond in Moscow 

Beaver Brook in Holeb 

Ttie tributaries to Great Embden Pond in Embden 

The tributaries to Lake George in Canaan 



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Getchell Brook in Anson 

That part of Johnson Brook, so-called, in Pittsfield, 
which is above the Johnson bridge, so-called, on the 
county road leading from Burnham to Canaan. 

The tributaries to Lang Pond in T. 3, R. 7. 

Lang Stream and its tributaries 

Misery Stream, an inlet of Brassua Lake 

Mosquito Stream, a tributary to Lake Moxie 

The tributaries to Great Moose Lake in Hartland and 
Harmony EXCEPT Main Stream. Goodwin's Brook and 
that portion of Higgins Stream below the first dam on 
said stream. 

The tributaries to Parlin Pond in T. 3. R. 7 

The tributaries to "Wesserunsett (or Hayden) Lake in 
Maidison 

The West Outlet of Moosehead Lake from the dam to the 
Canadian Pacific Railway bridge 



LAKES AND PONDS. 

High Pond in Pierce Pond Township during the month 
of September 

Jackson Pond in Concord 

King Pond (or Middle Kilgore) Pond, so-called, in Pierce 
Pond and Bowtown Townships 

Temple Pond in Moscow 



SPECIAI. REGULATIONS. 

The Calf Pasture, adjacent to Big Turner Pond, in 
Forsythe Township, daily limit, five pound*:' of fish in all 

Cheney Pond, in Hammond Township, daily limit, five 
pounds of fish in all 

Crocker Pond, in Donnistown Plantation, daily limit, five 
pounds of fish in all 

Fish Pond, in Holeb Township, daily limit, five pounds 
of fish in all 

Fish Pond, in Black Brook Township, fiy fishing only: 
daily limit, five pounds of fish in all 

Fish Pond, in Moxie Gore, daily limit, five pounds of 
fish in all 

Little Fish Pond, in Alder Brook Township, fly fishing 
only 



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Little Fish Pond, in Holeb Townshiip, daily limit, five 
pounds of fish in all 

Helen Pond, in Black Brook and Pierce Pond Townships, 
fly fishing only 

High Pond, in Pierce Pond Township, fly fishing only; 
daily limit, five pounds of fish in all 

McKenney Pond, in Holeb Township, daily limit, five 
pounds of fish in all 

O'Day, or Horseshoe Pond, in Pierce Pond Township, fly 
fishing only 

Penobscot Lake, in Ts. 3 and 4, R. 4, and T. 3, R. 5, 
daily limit, five pounds of fish in all 

Big Turner Pond, in Forsythe Township, daily limit, 
five pounds of fish in all 

Little Turner Pond in Forsythe Township, daily limit, 
five pounds of fish in all 

Young's Pond, in Pleasant Ridge Plantation, fly flshing 
only 

It shall also be unlawful, for any person to take, catch 
and kill more than five pounds of trout and salmon in all 
in any one day in any waters which are open to fishing in 
Lower Enchanted Township ; or in Upper Enchanted Town- 
ship ; or in Township Number 5, Range 7; or in Johnson 
Mountain Township; or in Upper Cold Stream Tract; or 
in that part of Parlin Stream which is situated in Town- 
ship Number 4, Range 7, and in Long Pond Plantation; or 
in Parlin Pond Township, including that part of Parlin 
stream in said township ; it shall also be unlawful to fish 
for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any time, except 
in the ordinary way of casting with artificial flies or fly 
fishing in Little Enchanted Pond, so-called, in Upper En- 
chanted Township, or in any of the waters situated In 
Johnson Mountain Township, except Parlin Stream, or in 
any of the waters situated in Upper Cold Stream Tract. 



WALDO COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in all the lakes, ponds and 
rivers in Waldo County. 



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WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

Meadow Brook, so-called, in the towns of Stockton 
Springs and Prospect and its tributaries ; Fifteen Mile 
Stream and its tributaries, (situated partly in Kennebec 
County) ; the tributaries to Duck Trap Stream and the 
tributaries to Sleepy Hollow Brook, in Lincolnville and 
Belmont. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

It is unlawful to fish in Duck Trap Stream, so-called, in 
the towns of Lincolnville and Belmont, EXCEPT during 
the months of May and .Tune of each year, or in Sleepy 
Hollow Brook, except during the month of April of each 
year. 

WASHINGTON COUNTY. 

ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to flsh through the ice for pickerel at 
any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February, March and April of each year, in accordance 
with the general law of the State, in all the lakes, ponds 
and rivers in Washington County except Lambert Lake. 

WATERS CLOSED TO ALL FISHING. 

BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The following waters in Washington County are closed 
to all fishing, namely : 

The tributaries to Lambert Lake; that part of Moosehorn 
Stream, in Baring, above the mouth of Cold Brook which 
flows into said stream at the Kelley Meadow, so-called. 

SPECIAL REGULATIONS. 

In Grand Lake Stream, the outlet of Grand Lake, and so 
much of Grand Lake as is one hundred yards above the 
dam at the outlet, it is unlawful to take any kind of fish at 
any time from October first of each year to May thirty- 
first of the following year, both days inclusive, and pro- 
vided, further, that from said dam to a point one hundred 
yards below said dam on said stream it shall be unlawful 



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to fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any time, 
and it shall also be unlawful during open season on said 
stream and one hundred yards above the dam at the outlet 
of said lake, to fish for, take, catch or kill any kind of 
fish by any other method than by the ordinary way of 
angling with artificial flies. 



YORK COUNTY. 
ICE FISHING LAWS. 

It shall be lawful to fish through the ice for pickerel 
at any time, and for protected game fish during the months 
of February and March of each year, in accordance with 
the general law of the State, in all the lakes, ponds and 
rivers in York county, except Bonneg Beg, Messabesic, 
Littlefield, Middle Branch, Long and York Ponds. 



BROOKS AND STREAMS. 

The tributaries to Bonneg Beg pond in Sanford and 
North Berwick; or in Mclntyre or Junkins brooks in 
York; Great brook, a tributary to Salmon Falls river, 
Dixon brook, a tributary to Great brook. 



I.AKES AND PONDS. 

York pond in York and Eliot; Littlefield pond in San- 
ford; Boyd's pond in Limington. 



SPECIAI. REGULATIONS. 

It is unlawful to fish in Dole pond in Limington except 
during .Tune, July and August of each year, or for any 
person to take more than five i>ounds of white perch in 
one day in Little River or in any of its tribiitaries in Old 
Orchard, and only for consumption in the family of the 
person taking the same. 

(Note. For penalty for violating any provision of the 
above Rules and Regulations, see section 21, page 30.) 



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DAILY LIMIT. 

Section 19. During the respective closed seasons on the 
above named fish no person shall fish for, take, catch or 
kill or have any of them in possession; provided, further, 
that no person shall in any one day during the respective 
open seasons herein provided take or catch and kill or 
have in possession at any time, more than fifteen pounds 
in all of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch and 
black bass, unless one individual fish caught shall weigh 
more than fifteen pounds, or unless the last fish caught in- 
creases the combined weight thereof to more than fifteen 
pounds, and provided, further, that no person in any one 
day shall take, catch and kill or have in possession at any 
time more than twenty-five fish in all of landlocked salmon, 
trout, togue, white perch and black bass even though the 
tAventy-five fish caught and killed weigh less than fifteen 
pounds; .... 

SPECIAL LAW AND LIMIT IN RANGELEY LAKES. 

(Section 19.) 

provided, further, that no person or party 

or occupants of any one boat, canoe, raft or other vessel 
or conveyance propelled by steam, electricity, hand or 
other power shall catch by still or plug fishing, so called, 
more than four trout and landlocked salmon in any one 
day, collectively, nor more than two trout and landlocked 
salmon in any one day, individually, in the waters of 
Richardson, Mooselookmeguntic and Cupsuptic lakes, sit- 
uated in the counties of Franklin and Oxford ; provided, 
further, that it shall be unlawful for any person to fish 
for, take, catch or kill any kind of fish at any time in 
Rangeley Lake, in the county of Franklin, by still or 
plug fishing, so called ; . . . . 

PLUG FISHING FOR TROUT AND LANDLOCKED 
SALMON PROHIBITED IN SNOW POND (OF BEL- 
GRADE CHAIN.) 

(Section 19.) 

provided, further, that no person shall fish 

for, take, catch or kill any trout or landlocked salmon at 
any time in Messalonskee lake, or Snow pond, so called, of 
the Belgrade Chain of lakes, in the county of Kennebec, by 
still or plug fishing, so called, .... 



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LENGTH OF PROTECTED FISH WHICH MAY BE 
TAKEN. SPECIAL LIMIT IN CERTAIN WATERS. 

(Section 19.) 

and provided, further, that no landlocked 

salmon less than twelve inches in length, no trout or white 
perch less than six inches in length and no black bass 
less than ten inches in length shall be caught and killed 
or had in possession by any person at any time, except 
that in Great, Long, East, North, Ellis, McGraw and 
Snow ponds, said ponds being part of the Belgrade chain 
of lakes, in Kennebec and Somerset counties, no trout less 
than ten inches or black bass less than twelve inches in 
length shall be caught and killed at any time; and pro- 
vided, further, no person shall take, catch and kill in any 
one day more than six black bass in all in either of said 
ponds or in Lake Kezar or in Lower Kezar pond in Oxford 
county. 

(See penalty in Sec. 21, below.) 

NUMBER OF LINES WHICH MAY BE USED IN 
FISHING. 

Section 20. No person shall in any manner, except when 
fishing through the ice, as now provided by law, fish with 
more than two lines at any time. (See penalty next 
section.) 



PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL FISHING. 

Section 21. Whoever violates any provision of the three 
preceding sections (18, 19 and 20) shall pay a fine of not 
less than ten, nor more than thirty dollars, and costs of 
prosecution, for each offense; and in addition thereto one 
dollar for each fish taken, caught, killed or had in posses- 
sion in violation of any provision of said sections. 

(Same penalty for violating any of above R. & R. of 
Commrs.) 

SALE AND PURCHASE OF CERTAIN FISH PRO- 
HIBITED. 

Section 22. Whoever by himself, his clerk, servant, or 
agent, directly or indirectly, sells or purchases any land- 
locked salmon, trout, togue, black bass or white perch, 
shaU pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty 



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dollars, and costs of prosecution, for each offense, and in 
addition tliereto one dollar for each fish sold, purchased or 
had in possession in violation of this section. 

SALE OF WHITE PERCH TAKEN IN CERTAIN 
WATERS IN WASHINGTON AND PENOBSCOT 
COUNTIES PERMITTED. 

Provided, however, that white perch legally taken in 
Grand Lake, Junior Lake, Compass Lake and Dobsis 
Lake, in the counties, of Washington and Penobscot, and 
all other lakes and ponds whose outlets empty into any 
of the above named lakes, may be sold and transported, 
within or without this state, under such rules and 
regulations as the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and 
Game may establish. 

PROHIBITED DEVICES IN FISHING. 

Section 24. Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills or 
destroys any fish, with fish spawn, or grapnel, spear, trawl, 
weir, gaff, seine, trap, (or set lines, except when fishing 
through the ice, and then with not more than five set lines 
to a family in the day time) or shall use any dynamite or 
other explosive or poisonous or stupefying substance for 
the purpose of destroying or taking fish, or takes any kind 
of fish, except suckers, eels, hornpouts and yellow perch, 
as hereinafter provided, with any device or in any other 
way than by the ordinary mode of angling with single- 
baited hook and line, artificial flies, artificial minnows, 
artificial insects, spoon-hooks and spinners, so called, shall 
pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty- 
dollars, and costs of prosecution, for each offense; and in 
addition thereto one dollar for each fish taken, caught, 
killed or had in possession in violation of any provis:ion 
of this section; and when prohibited implements or devices 
are found in use or possession they are forfeit and con- 
traband and any person finding them in use may destroy 
them. 

POSSESSION OF JACKLIGHT, (OR I.IGHT FITTED 
FOR HUNTING GAME AT NIGHT,) SPEAR, TRAWI., 
OR NET IliLEGAL. 

Section 25. No person shall have in possession at any 
time when he is upon the wild lands, waters or highways, 



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or in the woods or fields of the state, or in any camp, 
lodge, or place of resort for hunters or fishermen, or in its 
immediate vicinity, any jacklight or light fitted for use in 
the hunting of game in the night time ; nor shall any 
person have in possession at any time any spear, trawl or 
net (except such as are authorized for the taking of 
suckers, eels, hornpouts and yellow perch, as provided in 
section twenty-seven of this chapter) other than a dip-net, 
in any camp, lodge or place of resort for hunters or fisher- 
men, or in its immediate vicinity, or on any of the lakes, 
rivers or streams of the state, or in their immediate 
vicinity, in the inland territory of the state. Whoever 
violates any provision of this section shall be subject to 
a penalty of not less than ten, nor more than one hundred 
dollars and costs, for each offense, and when any such 
implements or devices are found in possession in violation 
of any' provision of this section they are forfeit and contra- 
band, and shall be seized by any person authorized to 
enforce the inland fish and game laws. 



SMELTS, MINNOWS, BAIT FISH, WHITE FISH, CUSK 
AND SUCKERS. 

Section 26. It shall be lawful, however, to take smelts in 
all the inland waters of the state above tide waters with 
a dip net in the usual and ordinary way, and to catch 
them through the ice in the day time with single hook 
and line at any time in waters open to ice fishing, but 
they shall not be taken for sale or sold at any time except 
for bait for fishing in this state ; provided, however, that 
it shall be lawful to take smelts, with single hook and 
line, in the day time, in Sebago lake for sale within or 
without the state, during January, February and March 
of each year, but they shall not be taken with a dip net 
in the tributaries to Sebago lake except for consumption 
as food in the family of the person taking the same; and 
provided, further, that it shall be unlawful to take smelts 
at any time in Swan lake, or in any of the tributaries to 
said lake, in the county of Waldo, in any manner except 
with single hook and line. Provided, further, that it 
shall be lawful to take minnows and other fish usually 
used for bait in fishing, in all the inland waters of the 
state, and to sell the same for bait for fishing only in this 
state; and provided, further, that it shall be lawful to 
catch white fish with single hook and line at any time, in 



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all the inland -waters of the state, but they shall not be 
taken at night with set lines; and provided, further, that 
white fish may be taken, by means of nets, during the 
month of November of each year, for food purposes only 
in the family of the person taking the same, under rules 
and regulations of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries 
and Game, in Millinocket, North Twin, South Twin, 
Pemadumcook, Jo Mary and Ambejejus lakes, in Penobscot 
and Piscataquis counties, and in Grand lake and Po- 
kumkus lake or Compass lake, so called, in Washington 
county; and provided, further,, that it shall be lawful to 
catch cusk at any time in waters open to ice fishing with 
not more than five set lines to each family when fishing 
through the ice and when under the immediate personal 
supervision of the person fishing; and provided, further, 
that it shall be lawful to take suckers with spears, in 
all the inland waters of the state, during April and May 
of each year. Whoever violates any provision of this 
section shall pay a fine of thirty dollars and costs for each 
offense. 

TAKING OF EELS, SUCKERS, HORNPOUTS AND 
YELLOW PERCH. 

Section 27. The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and 
Game may grant permits to take suckers, eels, hornpouts 
and yellow perch, by means of eel pots, traps, spears or 
nets, in inland waters frequented by these fish, under such 
terms, rules and regulations as they may establish, but 
no exclusive territory permits shall be granted for the 
taking of any of said fish in the Machias river, in Wash- 
ington county. 

It shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch, kill, 
destroy or have in possession any suckers, eels, hornpouts 
or yellow perch in violation of any provision of this 
section, under a penalty of thirty dollars and costs for each 
offense. 

TRANSPORTATION OF FISH AND PENALTY FOR 
ILLEGAL TRANSPORTATION. 

Section 28. No person shall transport more than fifteen 
pounds of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch or 
black bass in all in any one day, nor shall any corporation 
or common carrier transport more than fifteen pounds in all, 
of landlocked salmon, trout, togue, white perch or blaq^ 

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bass in any one day as the property of one person, but 
nothing herein contained shall prevent any person, cor- 
poration or common carrier from transporting one fish 
weighing more than fifteen pounds ; nor shall any such be 
transported except in the possession of the owner thereof, 
plainly labeled with the owner's name and residence, and 
open to view, except as is provided in the following 
section. Whoever violates any provision of this section 
shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty 
dollars and costs for each offense, and in addition thereto 
one dollar for every pound of fish being: transported in 
violation of any provision of this section; and all such 
fish being so transported in violation of this section shall 
be seized and shall be forfeited to the state; provided, 
however, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit any 
person having less than twenty-five fish weighing in all 
less than fifteen pounds from transporting one additional 
fish, nor prohibit any transportation company from trans- 
porting said additional fish under the conditions pre- 
scribed in this section for the transportation of fish. 



TRANSPORTATION OF FISH UNDER TAG. 

Section 29. No landlocked salmon, trout, togue, black 
bass or white perch shall be carried or transported in any 
way except in the possession of the owner, accompanied 
by him, plainly labeled with the owner's name and ad- 
dress, and open to view, except any person who has law- 
fully in his possession one landlocked salmon, one trout, 
one togue, one black bass or one white perch, or ten 
pounds of any kind of these fish, may transport the same 
to his home or to any hospital in this state without ac- 
companying the shipment, by purchasing of the duly con- 
stituted agent therefor a tag, paying for a landlocked 
salmon, trout, togue or black bass, one dollar for each, or 
one dollar for each ten pounds of the same, and fifty cents 
for one white perch or ten pounds of the same; provided, 
however, that no person shall, under any of these pro- 
visions, send more than one box of fish once in five days. 
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay 
a fine of not less than ten, nor more than thirty dollars 
and costs, for each offense, an-d in addition thereto one 
dollar for each pound of fish transported in violation of 
any provision of this section. 



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INTRODUCTION OF FISH WITHOUT PERMISSION OF 
COMMISSIONERS PROHIBITED. 

Section 30. Whoever introduces fish of any kind into 
any of the waters of the state by means of live fish or 
otherwise, except upon written permission of the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, shall pay a fine of 
not less than fifty, nor more than five hundred dollars. 



ADVANCE BAITING PROHIBITED. 

Section 31. W^hoever deposits any meat, bones, dead fish 
or parts of the same, or other food for fish, in any of the 
inland waters of the state, for the puri^ose of luring fish 
known as "advance baiting," shall pay a fine of not less 
than ten, nor more than thirty dollars and costs of 
prosecution, for each offense. 



FISHING FOR GAIN OR HIRE PROHIBITED. 

Section 23. Whoever shall, for the whole or any part of 
the time, engage in the business er occupation of fishing 
on any of the inland waters of the state above tide-waters, 
for landlocked salmon, togue, trout, black bass, pickerel, 
or white perch, for gain or hire, shall for every such 
offense pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs; provided, 
however, that nothing in this section shall be construed as 
prohibiting the sale of pickerel legally taken by the person 
taking the same. 



SAWDUST AND OTHER SAW MIIiL WASTE MUST NOT 
BE THROWN INTO I.AKES OR PONDS OR CERTAIN 
OTHER WATERS. 

Section 32. No person or corporation shall place or de- 
posit in any of the lakes or ponds of the state, or into 
any of the following named rivers, brooks and streams, to 
wit, in Aroostook county, the Aroostook river or any of its 
tributaries above the mouth of Beaver brook, in Sheridan 
plantation, except sawdust made by gang saws, main 
rotaries, up and down saws in water mills in use prior to 
nineteen hundred and three; Fish River and all its 
tributaries down as far as the foot of Eagle Lake, except 
Sly brook ; Wallagrass river for a distance of three miles 



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from its mouth ; Little Madawaska river or any of its 
tributaries ; in Cumberland county, in any of the rivers, 
brooks or streams lying wholly or in part in the towns of 
Naples, Casco and Raymond ; Breakneck brook and its 
tributaries; in any of the tributaries to Highland lake; 
Mill brook in Westbrook ; in Franklin county, in any of 
the tributaries to Lake Webb ; in Kennebec county, in any 
of the tributaries to McGraw, Ellis, East, North, Great, 
Long, Little and Snow ponds; in Hotter mill stream, in 
Litchfield ; in any of the tributaries to any of the lakes 
or ponds lying wholly or partly in the towns of Vienna 
and Mount Vernon ; in Knox county, in any of the 
tributaries to Crawford pond in Union and Warren; in 
Lincoln county, in Jackson mill stream, or in Joe Weeks' 
mill stream, tributaries to Damariscotta lake; in Oxford 
county. Bog brook and its tributaries, in Oxford and 
Hebron (and in Minot and Mechanic Falls in Androscoggin 
county) ; Swift River and its tributaries, in the counties 
of Oxford and Franklin; the outlet of Worthley pond in 
Peru ; in Ellis river and its tributaries ; Cambridge river, 
in Upton and Grafton; Bear river, in Newry and Grafton; 
Cold river and its tributaries, in Stowe ; the tributaries to 
Upper Kezar pond in Lovell; in Penobscot county, the 
west branch of Mattawamkeag stream and its tributaries ; 
Kimball brook, Shin brook and Seboeis river, tributaries 
to East branch of the Penobscot river; Fish stream, a 
tributary to Mattawamkeag river; Olamon stream; in Pis- 
cataquis county, Ferguson stream ; the South branch of the 
Piscataquis river and its tributaries in the town of Kings- 
bury ; Thorn brook and its tributaries in the towns or 
Abbott, Kingsbury and Blanchard ; Higgins stream and 
its tributaries in the counties of Somerset and Piscataquis; 
in Waldo county, Half Moon or Sandy stream and its 
tributaries; the tributaries to Seven Tree pond; the 
tributaries to Unity pond ; St. Georges river, in Montville 
and Searsmont; Ellis stream, in Waldo, Brooks and Bel- 
fast; in Washington county, Baskahegan stream, in the 
town of Danforth ; in York county. Heath brook, in the 
town of Acton ; Little Ossipee river, within the limits of 
the towns of Shapleigh, Newfield, Waterboro, Limerick and 
Limington; Norton and Brown brooks and their tributaries, 
in Shapleigh and Limerick, or allow the same to be done 
by anyone in their employ, any slabs, edgings, sawdust, 
chips, bark, mill waste, shavings or fibrous material cre- 
ated in the manufacture of lumber, or place or deposit the 



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same on the banks of any of the above-named waters in 
such negligent or careless manner that the same shall fall 
or be washed into said waters, or with the intent that the 
same shall fall or be washed into said waters. Whoever 
violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of 
not less than five dollars and not exceeding: one hundred 
dollars and costs for each oflfense. 



DUTIES OF COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND FISHERIES 
AND GAME. 

Section 2. The Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and 
Game shall have general supervision of the enforcement of 
the inland fiph and game laws. Whenever they shall deem 
it for the best interests of the State they may regulate the 
times and places in which and the circumstances under 
which wild birds, wild animals and inland fish may be 
taken for a series of years not exceeding four, upon 
petition of at least twenty- five per cent of the legal voters 
of the city, town or plantation in which the waters or 
lands to be affected are situated, or upon petition of a 
majority of the municipal officers thereof whenever in the 
judgment of the commissioners an emergency exists which 
demands immediate action, and in cases where the lands 
or waters to be affected are situated in unorganized town- 
ships, upon petition of at least twenty-five interested citi- 
zens of this state. Provided, however, that said commis- 
sioners shall not authorize the taking of wild birds or 
wild animals or inland fish at a time in which the taking 
thereof is prohibited by the laws of the state. They may, 
from time to time, modify or repeal rules and regulations 
promulgated by them whenever they deem it necessary for 
the protection and preservation of the wild birds, wild ani- 
mals and inland fish of the state. They shall file in the 
offices of the clerks of courts in the counties to be af- 
fected a copy of the rules and regulations adopted by 
them, and publish the same three weeks successively in 
a newspaper printed in the county ; they shall also, im- 
mediately upon the adoption of any rules and regulations 
contemplated by this section, file a copy of the same in the 
office of the secretary of state. They may, when they deem 
it necessary, post notices on the banks of waters affected 
by rules and regulations promulgated by virtue of this 
section. 



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PENALTY FOR HUNTING OB FISHING IN VIOLATION 
OF RULES AND REGULATIONS OF COMMISSIONERS. 

Section 3. Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills, 
destroys or has in possession any protected inland fish, or 
hunts, chases, catches, kills, takes, destroys or has In 
possession any protected wild birds or wild animals, or 
part or parts thereof, in any manner at any time, in viola- 
tion of any of the rules and regulations of the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, made and promul- 
gated in conformity with the provisions of this chapter, 
shall be punished in the same manner and to the same 
extent as is provided by law for illegally taking, catch- 
ing, killing, destroying or having in possessiop such pro- 
tected inland fish or for illegally hunting, chasing, catching, 
killing, taking, destroying or having in possession such 
protected wild birds or wild animals. 

Whoever fishes for, takes, catches, kills, destroys or has 
in possession any unprotected inland fish, or hunts, chases, 
catches, kills, destroys or has in possession any unpro- 
tected wild birds or wild animals, or part or parts thereof, 
In any manner at any time, in violation of any of the 
rules and regulations of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game, made and promulgated in conformity 
with the provisions of this chapter, shall be punished by 
a fine of not less than ten, nor more than fifty dollars and 
costs, for each offense. 

Section 4. Whoever wilfully mutilates, defaces or 
destroys any notice, rule or regulation of the commission- 
ers of inland fisheries and game, posted in conformity 
with the provisions of this chapter, shall pay a fine not 
exceeding fifty dollars. 



COMMISSIONERS MAY GRANT PERMITS TO TAKE 
AND TRANSPORT FISH, WILD BIRDS AND WILD 
ANIMALS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES. 

Section 5. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game may take fish, game birds and wild animals of any 
kind when, Avhere, and in such manner as they choose, for 
the purpose of science and of cultivation and dissemination, 
and they may grant written permits to other persons to 
tak.e fish, grane birds and wild animals for the same 
purposes, and may introduce or permit to be introduced, 
any kind of fish into any waters. They may, after a 



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hearing, set apart, for a term not exceeding ten j^e.irs, 
any waters for the use of the state or of the United 
cJtates commissioner of fish and fisheries, in the prosecu- 
tion of the worli of fish culture and of scientific research, 
relative to fishes. The order setting apart such waters 
shall be recorded in the registry of deeds in the county or 
registry district, in which they are situated. In the waters 
so set ai)art, they and the United States commissioner of 
fish and fisheries, and persons acting under their authority 
may, in their respective fish culture and scientific work, 
take fish at any time or in any maner, and erect and 
maintain any fixtures necessary for such purposes. No 
other person shall take or kill any fish, or use any imple- 
ment for fishing: therein, under a penalty of not less than 
ten, nor more than one hundred dollars, and a further 
penalty of one dollar for each fish so taken or killed; 
provi'ded, liowever, that before such hearing the com- 
missioners shall give notice thereof, by publication for 
two successive weeks in at least one newspaper printed in 
the county where such waters lie. 

They may grant permission to take wild animals and 
game birds for park purposes in this state, under such 
rules, regulations, and conditions as they shall establish. 

They may cause the destruction of any mink or othef 
destructive animal or bird found in or around any fish 
hatchery or feeding station in this state. 

They mar grant permits to transport in and beyond the 
limits of the state, live fish, wild animals or game birds 
taken in the state for breeding or advertising purposes. 
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GAME AND FUR FARMING. 

(Section 5.) 

They may issue permits to any person, firm or cor- 
poration to engage in the business of propagating game 
birds, game or fur-bearing animals, under such regulations 
as they shall establish. 

They may issue to any person, firm or corporation permit 
to fence in or enclose land not exceeding twenty-five acres 
in area for the above named purpose. When it appears 
that such application is made in good faith, and upon the 
payment of an annual fee of two dollars, said commission- 
ers may issue to the applicant a breeder's license per- 
mitting the breeding and rearing of any species of game 
birds, gahie or fur-bearing animals within such enclosure. 



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Such licensed breeders may at any time sell, transport or 
kill and sell, and any person, firm or corporation may 
purchase, have in possession or transport, any game birds, 
game or fur-bearing animals raised by virtue of the pro- 
visions of this section, under such regulations as said com- 
missioners may establish. 



FISHWAYS. 

Section 6. They may compel the owner or occupant of 
every dam or other artificial obstruction above tuie-water 
in any river or stream frequented by salmon, landlocked 
salmon, shad, alewives or other migratory fishes, to pro- 
vide the same with a durable and efllcient fishway, of sucn 
form and capacity, and in such location as may, after 
notice in writing to one or more of said owners or occu- 
pants and a hearing thereon, be determined by the com- 
missioners ; they shall give written notice to some owner 
or occupant specifying the location, form and capacity of 
the required fishway, and the time within which it shall tie 
built; and said owner or occupant shall keep said fishway 
in repair, and open and free from obstruction for the 
passage of fish, during such times as are prescnoed by 
law; provided, however, that in case of disagreement 
between said commissioners and the owner or occupant of 
any dam, as to the propriety and safety of the pl;in sub- 
mitted to the owner or occupant of such dam for the 
location and construction of the fishway, such owner or 
occupant may appeal to the county commissioners of the 
county where the dam is located, within twenty days after 
notice of the determination from the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game by giving to the latter named 
commissioners notice in writing of such appeal within that 
time, stating therein the reasons therefor; and at the 
request of the appellant or the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game, the senior commissioners In oflSce of 
any two adjoining counties shall be associated with the 
commissioners of the county where the dam Is located ; 
they shall appoint a time to view the premises and hear 
the parties and give due notice thereof, and after such 
hearing they shall decide the question submitted, ant\ 
cause record to be made thereof, and their decision shall 
be final as to the plan and location appealed from. 

If the requirements of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game are afllrmed the appellants shall be 
liable for the costs arising after the appeal, otherwise they 



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shall be paM by the county. If a flshway thus required is 
not coiupleted to ttie satisfaction of the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game within tlie time specified, ev<'rv 
owner or occupant shall forfeit not more than one hundr-^d, 
nor less than twenty dollars for every day of such 
negrlect. Ou the completion of a fishway to the satisfaciioa 
of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, or at 
any subsequent time, they shall prescribe In writing the 
time during which the same shall be kept open and free 
from obstruction to the passage of fish each year, and 
a copy of such writing shall be served on the owner or 
occupant of the dam. The commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game may change the time as they see fit. 
Unless otherwise provided, fishways shall be kept open 
and unobstructed from the first day of May to the 
fifteenth day of July. The penalty for negrlecting: to 
comply with this section, or with any regulations made 
in accordance herewith, is not less than twenty nor more 
than one hundred dollars for every day of such neglect. 

Section 7. Whenever the commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game find a fishway out of repair or needing 
alterations, they may, as in the case of new fishways, 
require the owner or occupant to make such repairs or 
alterations; and all proceedings in such cases and the 
penalty for neglect shall be as provided in the preceding 
section without appeal. If the dam is owned and occupied 
by more than one person, each is liable for the cost of 
erecting and maintaining such fishway, in proportion to 
his interest in the dam, and if any owner or occupant 
neglects or refuses to join w^ith the others in erecting or 
maintaining such fishway, the other owners or occupants 
shall erect or repair the same, and have an action on 
the case against such delinquent for his share of the 
expenses. If the owner or occupant of such dam resides 
out of the state, said penalties may be recovered by a 
libel against the dam and land on which it stands, filed in 
the supreme judicial court in the county where it is 
located, in the name of the commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game or of any inland fish and game warden or 
deputy inland fish and game warden who shall give to 
such owner or occupant, and all persons interested therein, 
such notice as the court or any justice thereof in vacation 
orders, and the court may render judgment therein, 
against said dam and lands for said penalties and costs, 
and order a sale thereof to satisfy such judgment and costs 
of .<^iale, subject, however, to all said requirements for the 
erection and maintenance or repair of said fishway. The 



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commissioners of inland fisheries and game may delegate 
to any inland fish and game warden or other lawful officer 
of inland fisheries and game any of the powers given to 
said commissioners in relation to the construction of 
flshways. 

HOW FISH HATCHERIES MAY BE ESTABLISHEO. 

Section 8. The commissioners «f inland fisheries and 
game for the location, construction, repair and convenient 
operation of a fish hatchery or fish hatcheries and feeding 
stations for fish may purchase, lease or take and hold, for 
and in behalf of the state, as for public uses, land and all 
materials in and upon it or any rights necessary for the 
purpose of establishing, erecting and operating fish hatch- 
eries. For real estate so taken, tlie owners are entitled to 
damages, to be paid by the state and estimated by the 
county commissioners, on written application of either 
party, made within one year after filing the location as 
hereinafter provided, or if proceedings thus commenced 
fail for causes not affecting the merits, new ones may be 
commenced, within one year thereafter. "When the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game deem that a public 
exigency requires the taking of any land or rights for the 
purposes aforesaid, they shall cause the same to be sur- 
veyed, located, and so described that the same can be 
identified, and a plan thereof shall be filed in the registry 
of deeds in the county, or registry district, where the land 
or rights are located, and there recorded. The filing of 
such plan and description shall vest the title to the land 
and right aforesaid, in the State of Maine, or its grantees, 
to be held during the pleasure of the state. Either party 
if aggrieved by a decision of the county commissioners 
rendered in conformity with the provisions of this section, 
may appeal as in cases of land taken for highways to the 
supreme judicial court in the county in which the land is 
situated. 



SCREENING OF LAKES AND PONDS. 

Section 9. The commissioners may in their discretion 
authorize the screening of the outlet of any pond or lake 
under such conditions aa they may determine. Whoever 
shall take up, destroy or injure any screen erected at the 
outlet of any lake or pond by authority of the commis- 



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sioners of inland fisheries and game, shall pay a fine of 
fifty dollars and costs for each ofi'ense. 



AUTHORITY OF COMMISSIONERS IN SETTLEMENT 
QF CASES OF VIOLATIONS. 

Section 87. The provisions of section ninety-three of 
chapter forty-tive, relating to the powers of the commis- 
sioner of sea and shore fisheries, are hereby extended to 
the commissioners of inhmd fisheries and game. 

(The following is the full text of Sec. 93, ch. 45, R. S., 
above referred to.) 

"Ch. 45, Sec. 93. All fines and penalties under this 
chapter may be recovered by complaint, indictment or 
action of debt made or brought in the county where the 
offense was committed. The action of debt shall be brought 
in the name of the commissioner of sea and shore fisheries, 
and all offenses under, or violations of, the provisions of 
this statute, may be settled by the commissioner of sea 
and shore fisheries, upon such terms and conditions as he 
deems advisable. All fines, penalties and collections under 
this chapter, except when otherwise expressly provided, 
shall forthwith be paid to the commissioner of sea and 
shore fisheries and by him be paid to the treasurer of 
state to be added to and made a part ot the appropriation 
for sea and shore fisheries. And the commissioner shall 
report to the treasurer of state the amount of each fine, 
penalty and collection itemized and the name of the party 
paying the same which shall be kept on record in the 
treasurer's office." 



ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF FISH BY RIPARIAN PRO- 
PRIETORS, AND SALE AND TRANSPORTATION OF 
SUCH FISH. 

Section 33. Any riparian proprietor may, within the 
limits of his own premises, enclose the waters of a stream 
not navigable, for the cultivation of useful fishes; provided 
that he furnishes suitable passages for migratory fishes 
naturally frequenting such waters, and does not obstruct 
the passage of boats and other craft and materials, in 
places where the same have a right to pass. Any person 
legally engaged in the artificial culture and maintenance 
of fishes, may take them in his own enclosed waters 



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wlierein the same are so cultivated and maintained, as 
and when he pleases, and may at all times sell, ship or 
transport them from his own pools or ponds, without 
accompanying the shipment, having first procured a license 
therefor and tagged said fish in accordance with the rules 
and regulations established by the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game. 

Section 34. No person without permission of the pro- 
prietor, shall fish in that portion of a pond or other water 
in which fish are artificially cultivated or maintained by 
written permission of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game, under a penalty of not less than ten, 
nor more than one hundred dollars, for each ofifense, 
besides two dollars for each fish so taken or killed; and, 
in default of payment, such offender shall be imprisoned 
at the expense of the prosecutor, until said forfeiture is 
paid or he is otherwise discharged by due process of law. 



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GAME AND BIRD LAWS. 

Protection of Moose, Caribou and Deer. 

Section 3(5. Whoever hunts, pursues, kills or has in pos- 
session any caribou or any cow moose, or part thereof, at 
any time, shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars and costs 
for each offense. 

Section 37. There shall be a closed time on bull moose 
until the first day of November in the year nineteen 
hundred and nineteen ; until said date no person shall 
hunt, taS:e, catch, kill, destroy or have in possession 
any bull moose or part thereof. Whoever violates any 
provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than 
one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars and costs 
for each offense or be imprisoned not exceeding four 
months. 

DEEB. 

Section 38. There shall be an annual closed season on 
deer in the counties of Aroostook, Franklin, Hancock, 
Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset and Washington 
from December sixteenth of * each year to September 
thirtieth of the following year, both days inclusive, 
(except that on the island of Mount Desert and in the 
town of Deer Isle and in the town of Stonington, in the 
county of Hancock, and on Cross island and on Scotch 
island, in the county of Washington, no deer shall be pur- 
sued or killed at any time,) during which said closed 
season, except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful 
to hunt, chase, catch or kill any deer or have in possession 
any part or parts thereof whenever or wherever taken, 
caught or killed ; and no person shall between October 
first and December fifteenth next following of each year, 
both days inclusive, except as hereinafter provided, take, ' 
catch, kill or have in possession, whenever or wherever 
taken, caught or killed, more than two deer or parts 
thereof. 

There shall be an annual closed season on deer in the 
counties of Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, 
Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo and York from the first day 
of December of each year to the thirty-first day of October 
of the following year, both days inclusive, (except 
that in the town of Isle au Haut, in the county of Knox, 
and on Swan Island, in the county of Sagadahoc, no deer 
shall be pursued or killed at any time,) during which 



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closed season, except as hereinafter provided, it shall be 
unlawful to hunt, chase, catch or kill any deer, or have in 
possession any part or parts thereof, taken in the counties 
named in this paragraph ; and no person shall between 
the first day of November and the thirtieth day of 
November, of each year, both days inclusive, except as 
hereinafter provided, take, catch or kill in the counties 
named in this paragraph more than one deer ; it shall also 
be unlawful for any person to have in possession more 
than one deer, or part or parts thereof, taken in the 
counties named in this paragraph in one open «eason; a 
person lawfully killing a deer in open season shall have 
a reasonable time in which to transport the same to his 
home and may have the same in possession at his home in 
closed season. 

DAMAGE TO CROPS BY DEER. 

(Section 38.) 

. . . . Provided, however, that if a deer is found 
doing actual, substantial damage to any growing cultivated 
crops, the cultivator of such crops may kill the deer, and 
may consume said deer in his own family but not other- 
wise; but he shall not pursue the deer beyond the limits 
of his cultivated land in which the damage is being done; 
provided, further, that whoever kills a deer in accordance 
with the provisions herein contained shall forthwith give 
notice in writing to the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, at Augusta, Maine, of the fact of such killing 
and the character and estimated amount of damage done; 
whoever fails to give such notice shall in no wise be 
protected by the provisions hereof. Whoever shall culti- 
vate any crops for the manifest purpose of killing deer 
under the provisions of this paragraph shall in no wise 
be protected thereby ; and it shall be unlawful to place 
salt in any place for the purpose of enticing deer thereto. 
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay 
a fine of forty dollars and costs for each offense. 



USE OF DOGS, JACK-LIGHTS, ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS, 
SNARES AND TRAPS PROHIBITED IN HUNTING 
MOOSE, CARIBOU AND DEER. 

Section 39. No person shall at any time hunt, catch, 
take, kill, or destroy, with dogs, jack-lights, artificial 



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lights, snares, or traps, any moose, caribou or deer, under 
a penalty of one hundred dollars and costs for each 
offense. 

Section 40. Any person owning or having in his posses- 
sion any dog for the purpose of hunting or chasing moose, 
caribou or deer, or who permits any dog owned by him 
or in his possession to hunt or chase moose, caribou or 
deer, after notice that such dog has chased moose, caribou 
or deer, shall pay a fine of forty dollars and costs for 
each offense. 

DOGS MAY BE KILLED, WHEN. 

(Ch. 4 R. S. Sec. 116.) 

Any person may at any time lawfully kill any dog found 
hunting or chasing moose, caribou, or deer, or any dog 
kept and used for that purpose. Any person may lawfully 
kill a dog which suddenly assaults him or another person 
when peaceably walking or riding, or is found worrying, 
wounding, or killing any domestic animal when said dog 
is outside of the enclosure or immediate care of his owner 
'or keeper. 

DEER CANNOT BE SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY TO BE 
TAKEN OUT OF THE STATE. 

Section 41. No person shall sell or give away any deer 
or part thereof to be transported or carried beyond the 
limits of this state ; and no person shall buy or accept 
as a gift any deer or part thereof to so transport the 
same; and bo resfdent of this state shall carry or trans- 
port in any manner beyond the limits of this state more 
than one deer or part thereof in any one year. Whoever 
violates any provision ef this section shall pay a fine of 
forty dollars and costs for each offense. 

TRANSPORTATION OF DEER. 

Residents Must Identify Shipments at Inspection Stations. 

Section 44. Except as . herein provided no person or 
corporation shall carry or transport from place to place 
any deer or part thereof in closed season nor in open 
season unless open to view, tagged, and p-lainly labeled 
witb the name and residence of the owner thereof, and 
accompanied by him whije being transported and identified 
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fisheries and game shall have designated by publication in 
the daily newspapers in the state, under a penalty of 
forty dollars and costs for ea«h deer or part thereof so 
transported or carried, and any person not the actual 
owner of such deer, or part thereof, Avho, to aid another 
in such transportation, falsely represents himself to be 
the owner thereof, shall be liable to the same penalty; and 
it shall be prima facie evidence that said deer or part 
thereof, that is being transported or carried in violation 
of this section, was illegally killed. 



TRANSPORTATION OF DEER UNDER TAG WITHOUT 
ACCOMPANYING SAME. 

Section 42. Any citizen of the state who has lawfully 
killed a deer may send the same to his home or to any 
hospital in the state, without accompanying the same, by 
purchasing of the duly constituted agent therefor a tag, 
paying for a deer two dollars, and said tag shall be 
attached to the deer, or part thereof, being transported. 
The commissioners of inland fisheries and game may. 
appoint agents in convenient localities who may sell these 
tags, under such rules and regulations as said commis- 
sioners may adopt. 



ONE LUMBER CAMP MUST NOT HAVE OR USE MORE 
THAN TWO DEER IN ONE SEASON. 

Section 43. No owner, keeper or occupant of any camp, 
house or other building used partly or wholly in lumber- 
ing operations, shall have, use or keep in any manner 
more than two deer, or parts thereof, in any one open 
season for deer in any one year, under a penalty of forty 
dollars and costs for each deer or part thereof so had in 
possession or used in violation hereof. 



SUNDAY HUNTING PROHIBITED. 

Section 73. Sunday is a closed season, on which it is 
not lawful to hunt, kill or destroy any wild animals or 
wild birds of any kind. Whoever hunts, kills, or destroys 
any wild animal or wild bird on Sunday shall pay a fine 
of not less than ten, nor more than forty dollars and 
costs for each offense; provided, however, that if protected 



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wild animals or wild birds are limited, killed, destroyed or 
had in possession in violation of this section, the penalty- 
shall be the same as is now imposed therefor during: other 
closed season; but the penalties imposed for the violation 
of the Sunday laws of the statutes of this state are not 
hereby repealed or diminished. 

NIGHT HUNTING PROHIBITED. 

Section 74. There shall be a closed season on wild birds 
in this state from sunset to sunrise of the following 
morning, and on wild animals from one hour after sunset 
until one hour before sunrise of the following morning, 
during which closed season it shall be unlawful to hunt, 
kill or destroy wild birds or wild animals, of any kind. 
No person shall have in possession, at any time, any wild 
bird or wild animal, or part thereof, taken in violation of 
any provision of this section. Whoever violates any pro- 
vision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, 
nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each offense; 
provided, however, that if protected wild birds or wild 
animals are hunted, killed, destroyed or had in possession 
in violation of this section the penalty shall be the same 
as is now imposed therefor during other closed season ; 
provided, further, that the provisions of this section shall 
not apply to the hunting of raccoons at night from 
AugU'St fifteenth to October thirty-first, following, of each 
year, both days inclusive. 

HUNTING FROM AUTOMOBILES PROHIBITED. 

Section 64. It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, 
chase, catch, kill or destroy any wild bird or wild animal 
at any time from an automobile, or by aid or use of any 
light or lights carried thereon, or attached thereto. It 
shall also be unlawful for any person to have In posses- 
sion, at any time, any wild bird or wild animal, or part 
thereof, taken in violation of any provision of this section. 
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay 
a fin© of not less than forty dollars nor more than one 
hundred dollars and costs for each offense. 

SILENCERS CANNOT BE USED ON FIREARMS. 

Section 80. No person shall sell, offer for sale, use or 
have in his possessio-n, any gun, pistol, or other firearm, 
fitted or contrived with any device for deadening the 
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sound of explosion. Whoever violates any provision of 
this section shall forfeit such firearm or firearms and the 
device or silencer, and shall further be subject to a fine 
not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment 
not exceeding sixty days, or to both fine and imprison- 
ment. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, inland fish 
and game warden or deputy inland fish and game warden 
may seize any firearm or firearms and any device or 
silencer found in possession of any person in violation of 
this section, and on conviction of the party from whom 
such firearm or firearms are seized, such firearm or fire- 
arms shall be sold, the proceeds to be paid to the treasurer 
of state, and the device or silencer shall be destroyed. 
This section does not apply to military organizations 
authorized by law to bear arms, or to the national guard 
in the performance of its duty. All fines, penalties and 
forfeitures recovered by any person for any violation of 
this section shall be paid forthwith by the person re- 
ceiving the same to the treasurer of state, to be credited 
to fines and license fees for the protection of birds and 
game. 

THE SELLING OR GIVING AWAY OF AIR RIFLES TO 
CHILDREN UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE 
PROHIBITED. 

(Chapter 302, P. L. 1917.) 

Section 1. Whoever sells or gives away an air rifle to 
any child under the age of fourteen years shall be fined not 
less than five nor more than twenty dollars. 

Section 2. Municipal courts and trial justices shall have 
jurisdiction of violations of the preceding section. 



AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE CARRYING OF 
DANGEROUS OR DEADLY WEAPONS WITHOUT A 
LICENSE. 

(Chapter 217 P. L. 1917.) 

Section 1. No person shall in a threatening manner dis- 
play any firearm, slung-shot, knuckles, bowye knife, dirk, 
stiletto or other dangerous or deadly weapon, nor shall 
wear under his clothes or concealed about his person any 
such firearm, slung-shot, knuckles, bowie knife, dirk, 
stiletto or other dangerous or deadly weapon unless first 
licensed so to do in the following manner. 



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Section 2. The cnief of police or city marslial or in his 
absence, either of his captains of police of any city or the 
selectmen of any town, may upon written application issue 
to any person of good moral character, a ceriiticate setting 
forth that such person has complied with the recLuiremonts 
of this law and that he has been duly licensed to carry 
such weapon or weapons. Said license shall continue in 
effect until revoked by the chief of police or by the select- 
men of the town in which said license was issued. 

Section 3. Nothing in the foregoing section shall be 
construed as prohibiting the carrying or wearing of such 
weapons by United States marshals, sheriffs and their 
deputies, constables and police officers and other officers 
duly commissioned by the commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game. 

Section 4-. Whoever violates the provisions of this law 
shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or confined 
in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days. 



PROTECTION OF GRAY SQUIRRELS. 

Section 48. There shall be an annual closed season on 
gray squirrels during which closed season no person shall 
shoot at, kill, or have them in possession except alive, from 
the first day of November of each year until the thirtieth 
day of September of the following year, both days in- 
clusive ; provided, however, that there shall be a perpetual 
closed season on gray squiri-els within all public or private 
parks and within the limits of the compact or built-up 
portion of any city or village. Whoever shall shoot at or 
kill or have in possession any gray squirrel in violation 
of any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not 
more than five dollars and costs, for each oflfense. 



PROTECTION OF WILD HARES OR RABBITS. 

Section 49. There shall be an annual closed season on 
wild hares or rabbits, during which closed season no 
person shall hunt, kill, catch, pursue or have them in 
possession except alive, during the months of April, May, 
June, July, August and September of each year. No per- 
son shall use any snares, traps or other devices in the 
hunting, pursuing or killing of wild hares or rabbits, or 
hunt or kill the same except in the ordinary method of 
shooting with guns in the usual manner; provided, how- 



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ever, that it shall be lawful to catch wild hares or rabbits 
in common box traps during the open season provided in 
this section. Whoever violates any provision of this 
section shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs, for each 
offense. 



PROTECTION OF BEAVER. 

Section 45. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game, upon written complaint of any land owner that 
beaver are doing actual, substantial damage to his 
property, shall have authority to declare an open season 
for beaver upon such land for such period of time as they 
may deem necessary to remove the beaver that are doing 
the damage complained of, during which open season it 
shall be lawful for any licensed hunter and trapper of fur- 
bearing animals to trap beaver thereon. No open season 
for beaver as contemplated by this section shall take effect 
until the commissioners of inland fisheries and game shall 
have caused notice of such proposed open season to be 
published once in a newspaper printed in the county in 
which the land on which the open season for beaver is 
declared is located, and said commissioners shall also file 
copy of said notice of open season with the clerk of the 
town or plantation in which such land is located, or if 
the land is in an unorganized place, with the clerk of 
courts for the county in which the land is located. When- 
ever during a special open season on beaver as is con- 
templated by this section it shall appear to the commission- 
ers of inland fisheries and game that the privileges of such 
open season are being abused in any place, said commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game may suspend the 
open season and declare it close season for beaver on 
such land for such time as they may designate. No person 
shall take any beaver anywhere in the state at any time 
except during such open season as may be declared by the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game in accordance 
with the provisions of this section. Whoever takes any 
beaver in violation of any provision of this section shall be 
punished by fine of twenty-five dollars and costs for each 
beaver taken, caught or killed in violation of any provision 
of this section. It shall also be unlawful, under the same 
penalty, for any person to have in possession at any time, 
any beaver, or part thereof, taken in violation of any pro- 
vision of this section. 



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PROTECTION OF FUR BEARING ANIMALS OTHER 
THAN BEAVER. 

Section 46. Whoever, from the first day of March to the 
fourteenth day of the following October, both days in- 
clusive, hunts, traps, kills, pursues or catches any fur- 
bearing animal (except bears, muskrats, raccoons, beaver, 
bob-cats, loupcervier, Canada lynx, and weasels) or who- 
ever, from the first day of March to the fourteenth day of 
the following August, both days inclusive, hunts, traps, 
kills, pursues or catches, any raccoon, or whoever from 
the first day of May to the fourteenth day of the following 
October, both days inclusive, hunts, traps, kills, pursues or 
catches, any muskrat, or whoever has in possession at any 
time any fur-bearing animal or part thereof taken in 
closed season, shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for 
each offense and in addition thereto three dollars for each 
fur-bearing animal hunted, trapped, killed, pursued, 
caught or had in possession in violation hereof. Provided, 
further, that it shall be unlawful under the same penalty 
to take, catch, trap, kill or destroy any muskrat or musk- 
rats at any time in Lower Kezar pond, in the town of 
Fryeburg in the county of Oxford, and in the town of 
Bridgton in the county of Cumberland, or in the outlet 
stream of said Lower Kezar pond, or in the Kozar 
meadows, so-called, adjacent to said pond, (which meadows 
are bounded by the outlet stream of said pond, by the 
old Saco river, by the "Uplands," so-called, and by the 
"Upland" on the easterly side of said meadows) or in the 
east bog, so-called, or in the west bog, so-called, bounded 
by the "Uplands," and on the Avesterly side by a wire 
fence on land owned by E. C, Buzzell. Provided, further, 
it shall be unlawful to set a trap at any time within 
twenty-five feet of a muskrat house, under penalty of ten 
dollars and costs for each offense. Whoever at any time 
hunts, traps, kills, pursues, catches or has in possession 
any beaver, or part thereof, except as provided in the pre- 
ceding section, shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars and 
costs for each ofifense. 



DIGGING OUT OF FOX DENS PROHIBITED. 

Section 47. No person shall at any time dig out, molest 
or destroy in any way any fox den or fox dens or remove 
or cause to be removed therefrom any fox or foxes, except 



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those enclosed in private fox ranches. Whoever violates 
any provision of tliis section shall pay a fine of ten dollars 
and costs for each offense. 



TRAPPING OF FUR BEARING ANIMAL,S. 

Section 50. Whoever hunts, captures or traps any fur- 
bearing animals, except bob-cats, loupcervier or Canada 
lynx, in any of the unorganized townships of the state 
shall annually procure a license therefor, from the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game, paying therefor 
a fee of five dollars ; and he shall, on or before the fifteenth 
day of December of each year, make such report to said 
commissioners as may be called for by them. Whoever 
violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of 
fifty dollars and costs, for each offense. 



TRAPS MUST BE MARKED. 

Snares Cannot Be Used. 

Section 51. No person shall at any time set a snare for 
any fur-bearing animal, nor shall any person at any time 
set any trap or traps of any kind for any wild animal 
without having the trap or traps plainly labeled with his 
full name and address, either by having the same stamped 
on the trap or on a metal tag, firmly attached to the trap. 
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay 
a fine of five dollars and costs for each offense and in 
addition thereto five dollars for each trap set and not 
marked as provided herein, and shall forfeit the trap or 
traps, and any wild animal found therein, to any person 
finding the same. 

BEAR TRAP MUST BE ENCLOSED IN A "HUT." 
NOTICE MUST BE POSTED. 

(Section 51.) 

. . . . Provided, that no person shall set a bear trap 
at any time unless a written or printed notice stating that 
such a trap has been set is posted conspicuously in the 
immediate vicinity, under a penalty of fifty dollars and 
costs for each offense; and no person shall set a bear trap 
at any time unless the same is enclosed in a hut, so-called, 
under the same penalty. 



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IT IS UNLAWFUL TO SET A TRAP WITHIN 25 FEET 
OF A MUSKKAT HOUSE. PENALTY, $10 AND COSTS 
FOR EACH OFFENSE. 

(See Sec. 46, p. 5:3.) 



POISONING OF ANIMALS UNLAWFUL. 

(Ch. 20 R. S., Sec. 18.) 

Whoever for the purpose of killing wolves, foxes, clogs 
or other animals, and not for the destruction of insects 
or vermin in a building, leaves or deposits in any place 
any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, nux vomica, strychnine, 
prussic acid, or any other poison or poisonous substance, 
shall be fined not less than twenty, nor more than fifty 
dollars, or be imprisoned not less than thirty, nor more 
than six.ty days. 

TRAPS MUST BE VISITED. 

Permit Must Be Secured in Order to Set Traps in Organized 
or Incorporated Place. 

Section 52. Any person setting a trap in any organized or 
incorporated place shall visit said trap, or cause the same 
to be visited, at least once in every twenty-four hours apd 
remove therefrom, or cause to be removed, any animal 
found caught therein. No person shall set traps in any 
organized or incorporated place without first obtaining 
the written consent of the owner or occupant of the land 
on which said traps are to be set. Whoever violates any 
provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than 
ten, nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each offense. 

WILD ANIMALS OR WILD BIRDS FOUND DESTROY- 
ING PROPERTY MAY BE KILLED. 

(Section 46.) 

Any person may InAvfully kill any wild animal (other 
than beaver) or any wild bird found destroying, his 
property. 

BOUNTY ON BOB-CATS. 

Section ^?,. A bounty r%f four dollnrs for every bob-cat. 
loupcervier or Canada lynx killed in any town shall be 



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paid by the treasurer of state to the person killing it upon 
compliance with the folloAving conditions : 

No bounty shall be paid unless the claimant, within five 
days after he has killed such animal, or has returned from 
the hunting in which he killed it, exhibits to the town 
treasurer the entire skin thereof with the ears, nose and 
tail thereon in as perfect a state as when killed, except 
natural decay, and signs a certificate under oath, which 
said treasurer may administer, stating that he killed such 
animal and the time and place, which shall be within the 
state, and the treasurer shall thereupon cut off the whole 
of the tail from such skin and forward the same by mail 
to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, at 
Augusta, Maine, together with the claimant's certificate, 
which certificate shall be in the following form: 



CLAIMANT'S CERTIFICATE. 

To the treasurer of the town of : 

I hereby certify that on the day of A. D. 

19 , at , in the State of Maine, I killed the 

bob-cat, loupcervier or Canada lynx, the skin of which I 
now exhibit to you, and I claim the bounty allowed by law 
for killing the same. 

Dated at , this day of 

A. D. 19 

Claimant. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year 
aforesaid. 

Treasurer of 

And the treasurer of said town shall make and send at 
once to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game 
a certificate which shall be in the following form : 

TOWN TREASURER'S CERTIFICATE. 

To the commissioners' of inland fisheries and game : 
I hereby certify that as required by law, , of 

on the day of 

A, D. 19 , at , exhibited to me the whole of 

the skin of a bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx, and 
signed and made oath to the following certificate: 
To the treasurer of the town of 

I hereby certify that on the day of 

A. D. 19 , at , in the State of Maine, 1 

killed the bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx, the skin of 



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which I now exhibit to you, and I claim tlie bounty 

allowed by law for killing the same. 

Dated at , this day of 

A, D. 19 . 

Claimant. 

I further certify that I cut o& the whole of the tail from 
the skin of the bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx 
described in this certificate and enclose the same herewith. 
Dated at , this day of 

A. D. 19 . 

Treasurer of the town of 

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid. 

Justice of the Peace. 
Upon receipt by the state auditor of a certificate from 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game showing 
that said commissioners have received the tail of the 
bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx from the treasurer sent 
as aforesaid, together with said treasurer's certificate, said 
state auditor shall audit the claim for bounty and the 
same shall be paid forthwith by the treasurer of state to 
the claimant from the appropriation for bounties on 
bobcat, loupcervier or Canada lynx. The town treasurer 
for administering the oath to a claimant's certificate as 
above, and for forwarding the same with the tail of the 
animal to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, 
shall be paid by the claimant the sum of twenty -five cents. 

BOUNTY ON BEARS. 

(Chapter 215, P. L. 1917.) 

Section 1. A bounty of five dollars for each and every 
bear killed in this State shall be paid to the person kill- 
ing the same. If the animal is killed in a town or plan- 
tation, the bounty shall be paid by the treasurer thereof: 
if the animal is killefi in an unincorporated place, the 
bounty shall be paid by the treasurer of an adjoining 
town or plantation, if any, otherwise by the treasurer of 
the nearest town or plantation. 

Section 2. No bounty shall be paid unless the claimant, 
Avithin ten days after he has killed such animal, or has 
returned from the hunting, in which he killed it, exhibits 
to the town treasurer the entire skin of the animal for 
the killing of which such bounty is claimed, with the 
nose thereof in as perfect a state as when killed, excepting 
natural decay, and signs and makes oath to a certificate, 
which oath said treasurer may administer, in which he 
shall state that he killed such animal, and the time and 



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place, showing it to be within the county ; and the 
treasurer shall thereupon cut off the whole nose from such 
skin and entirely destroy it by burning ; then he shall 
pay the bounty and take the claimant's receipt therefor 
upon the same paper with such certificate. The town 
treasurer shall immediately make upon the same paper 
a certificate made under oath addressed to the treasurer of 
State, that he first cut off the nose from the skin and 
destroyed it by burning, and then paid said bounty to 
the claimant. 

Section 3. Said certificate and receipts shall be trans- 
mitted to the treasurer of State monthly, and by him laid 
before the Governor and Council as early as convenient ; 
and when allowed by them shall be paid by the treasurer 
of State to such town. 

Section 4. The certificate shall be in the following form: 



CLAIMANT'S CERTIFICATE. 

To the treasurer of , I hereby certify that 

on the da^ of , A. D., 19.., at 

, in the county of and State of 

Maine, I killed the bear the skin of which I now exhibit 
to you ; and I claim the bounty allowed by law for killing 
the same. 

Dated at , this day of 

10... 

, Claipiant. 

Subscribed and sworn to before me on the day and 
year aforesaid treasurer of 



CLAIMANT'S RECEIPT. 

On this day of , A. D. 19. . 

I received of treasurer of five 

dollars, being the bounty allowed by law for killing the 
bear described in the above certificate. . 

Claimant. 



TREASURER'S CERTIFICATE. 

T hereby oertlfv that as required by law. T first cut off 
the whole nose from the skin of the bear deRcribed in the 
foregoing certificate and destroyed the same by burning. 



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and then paid the said , the bounty for which 

I have taken his receipt as above. 

Dated at , this day of 

A. D. 19... 

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year 
aforesaid Justice of the peace. 

Section 5. The bounty so paid by the State treasurer 
shall be taken from the fees received from the licenses of 
dogs, in the State of Maine. 

PROTECTION OF GAME BIRDS. 

(Note. The State Bird Laws were amended by the Legis- 
lature of 1917 so that they now conform to the Federal 
Migratory Bird Laws.) 

Section 55. There shall be an annual closed season for 
ruffed grouse, commonly called partridge, spruce partridge, 
woodcock, all varieties of wild ducks, brant, geese, plover, 
snipe, sora and other rails, coots and gallinules, as 
follows : On partridge and woodcock, above named, from 
the first day of December of each year to the thirtieth day 
of September of the following year, both days inclusive; 
on all varieties of ducks, brant and geese and on coots, 
gallinules and jacksnipe, or Wilson Snipe, from the first 
day of January of each year to the fifteenth day of the 
following September, both days inclusive; on black- 
breasted and golden plover and greater and lesser yellow- 
legs, from the first day of December of each year to the 
fifteenth day of August of the following year, both days 
inclusive; on rails (except coots and gallinules) from the 
first day of December of each year to the thirty-first 
day of August of the following year, both days inclusive, 
during which closed seasons it shall be unlawful to hunt, 
chase, catch, kill or have in possession any of the above- 
named birds except as hereinafter provided ; provided, 
further, that it shall be unlawful to hunt, chase, catch, 
kill or destroy or have in possession at any time, any 
curlew, woodduck, swans, or any shore birds except black- 
breasted and golden plover, Wilson or Jacksnipe, wood- 
cock, and greater or lesser yellowlegs ; . . . . 

DAILY I.IMIT ON GAME BIRDS. 

(Section 55.) 

No person shall, during the respective open 

seasons for the above-named birds, take, catch, kill, destroy 
or have in possession in any one day more than five 

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partridge or ruffed grouse, ten woodcock, ten ducks, five 
plover and ten snipe; .... 



SALE OF GAME BIRDS PROHIBITED. 

(Section 55.) 

nor shall any person at any time buy or 

sell any of the above-named birds; .... 

TRANSPORTATION OF GAME BIRDS. 

(Section 55.) 

nor shall any person or corporation carry or 

transport from place to place any of the birds mentioned 
in this section in closed season (except that a person shall 
have a reasonable time after the beginning of closed season 
to transport, as hereinafter provided, to his home game 
birds legally killed by him in open season,) nor in open 
season unless open to view, tagged and plainly labeled 
with the owner's name and residence, and accompanied by 
him, unless tagged with a transportation tag as hereinafter 
provided ; nor shall any person or corporation carry or 
transport in any one day more than ten ducks, five plover, 
ten snipe, five partridges and ten woodcock, as the 
property of one person 

TRANSPORTATION OF GAME 
Birds Under Tag, Within and AVithout the State. 

(Section 55.) 

Provided, however, it shall be lawful for a citizen of this 
state who has purchased a transportation tag therefor ol 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, and paid 
five dollars for the same, to take with him out of the state 
five partridges or ten ducks or ten woodcock, which he 
himself has lawfully killed, by attaching said tag to the 
birds being transported by virtue of this paragraph. 

Provided, further, that any citizen of this state who has 
lawfully in his possession one pair of either of the birds 
named in this section, may send the same anywhere in this 
state Avithout accompanying the same, by purchasing of 
the duly constituted agent therefor a transportation tag, 
paying therefor the sum of fifty cents, and attaching said 



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tag to the pair of birds. Provided, further, that no person 
shall under any of the provisions of this paragraph send 
as aforesaid more than one pair of game birds once in 
seven days. 

PENALTY. 

Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section 
sliall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each offense, 
and in addition thereto one dollar for each bird of the 

above-named varieties taken, caught, killed, had in posses- 
sion or transported in violation hereof. 



ILI.EGAI. METHODS OF HUNTING BIRDS. 

Section 56. Whoever at any time or at any place with 
any trap, net, snare or contrivance other than the usual 
method of shooting with firearms takes any bird of any 
variety in anywise protected by this chapter shall pay 
a fine of five dollars and costs for each bird so taken, 
and when such prohibited implements or devices are found 
m possession they are forfeit and contraband and may be 
seized by any person authorized to enforce the inland fish 
and game laws. 
PROTECTION OF BIRDS OTHER THAN GAME BIRDS. 

Section 57. No person shall within the state, kill or 
catch or have in his or her possession, living or dead, any 
wild bird, other than a game bird, nor purchase, offer or 
expose for sale, any such wild bird after it has been 
killed or caught. No part of the plumage, skin or body 
of any bird protected by this section shall be sold or had 
in possession for sale. Nor shall any person take or need- 
lessly destroy the nest or the eggs of any wild bird, nor 
have such nest or eggs in possession. The English or 
European house sparrow, the common crow, and the hawks 
and owls, mud hens (or bittern), kingfishers, loons and 
blue herons are not included among the birds herein pro- 
tected; and for the purposes of this chapter the following 
only shall be considered game birds : the anatidse, com- 
monly known as swans, geese, brant, and river and sea 
ducks ; the rallidse, commonly known as rails, coots, and 
gallinulee; the limicolse, commonly known as shore birds, 
plovers, surf birds, snipe, woodcock, sand-pipers, tatlers 
and curlews; the gallinse, commonly known as wild 
turkeys, grouse, prairie chickens, pheasants, partridges 
and quails. Nothing in this section, however, shall be con- 



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strued to affect in any way the protection of game birds, 
as provided in sections lifty-four and fifty-five. Any 
person who violates any of the provisions of this section 
shall pay a fine of five dollars and costs, for each offense, 
and an additional five dollars for each bird, living or dead, 
or part of a bird, or nest, or egg possessed in violation of 
this section, or be imprisoned for ten days. 

HUNTING OF CERTAIN OTHER BIRDS PROHIBITED. 

Section 54. No person shall hunt, chase, catch, kill, 
destroy or have in possession at any time any eagle, Hun- 
garian partridge, or capercailzie, or cock of the woods, or 
any black game, or any species of the pheasant, except 
ruffed grouse or partridge. Whoever violates this section 
shall pay a fine of ten dollars and costs for each offense. 

MOTOR BOATS CAN^NOT BE USED IN HUNTING SEA 
BIRDS, DUCK OR WATER FOWL IN MAINE. 

Section 58. No person shall at any time use a boat or 
launch of any kind propelled by steam, naphtha, gasolio'^ 
or electricity, or any other mode than the ordinary sailboat 
or rowboat, in chasing, hunting or gunning any sea birds, 
duck or water fowl in any inland or tidal waters of this 
state, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five, nor 
more than one hundred dollars and costs for each offense. 

UNLAWFUL TO IMPORT WILD BIRDS OR ANIMALS 
AVITHOUT PERMIT. 

Section 75. AVhoever introduces or imports any wild 
bird or wild animal of any kind or species into the state, 
or whoever receives or has in possession such wild bird 
or wild animal so introduced or imported, except upon 
written permission of the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, shall forfeit not less than fifty dollars nor more 
than five hundred dollars and costs, for each offense. 

TERRITORY IN WHICH HUNTING IS PROHIBITED 
OR RESTRICTED. 

Section 76. No person shall at any time hunt, pursue, 
shoot at or kill any wild bird or wild animal on Kineo 
Point, in Kineo, in the county of Piscataquis. Whoever 
violates this section shall pay a fine of not less than ten 
nor more than forty dollars and costs, for each offense. 



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Section 77. No person shall, except as herein provided, 
at any time, hunt, pursue, shoot at or kill any wild animal 
or any game or other wild bird within the following 
described territory situated in the town of Eden, in the 
county of Hancock : Bounded on the north and east by the 
Atlantic ocean, on the south by the highway leading from 
Hull's Cove bridge to the Beaver Dam bridge near Shea 
Brothers' farm, and on the west by the highway leading 
from said Beaver Dam bridge to Salisbury cove; or on 
Bartlett's island in Hancock county; or on the one hundred 
and twelve acres of land, more or less, comprising Front's 
Neck, so-called, in the town of Scarboro, in the county of 
Cumberland; or on Richmond's island, so-called, in the 
town of Cape Elizabeth, in said county of Cumberland ; or 
on the tract of land comprising sixteen hundred acres, 
more or less, situated in said town of Cape Elizabeth, and 
bounded as follows : Southerly by the sea, westerly by the 
Spurwink river; northerly by the Spurwink road, so-called, 
leading from Spurwink bridge to Bowery Beach, easterly 
by a certain private road or way which runs in a southerly 
direction from the aforesaid Spurwink road to said Bowery 
Beach, being the road which runs in front of the dwelling 
house of one Charles L. Jordan and along the easterly 
boundary of land of said Charles L. Jordan and al(5ng the 
westerly boundary of land of the Great Pond Club, but 
not including any portion of said Bowerj' Beach. It shall 
also be unlawful for any person to have in possession at 
any time any wild bird or wild animal, or part thereof, 
taken in violation of any provisibn of this section. 

Provided, however, that the provisions of this section 
shall not prohibit any person residing on said island or 
within the limits of either of the above described reserva- 
tions or preserves from snooting at or destroying any 
wild bird (except ruffed grouse or Hungarian partridge) 
or any wild animal, when found destroying his property ; 
and provided, further, that the provisions of this section 
shall not be construed to prohibit the trapping of wild 
animals within the above described territory in accordance 
with the general laws of the state. Whoever violates any 
provision of this section shall be subject to a penalty of 
not less than ten, nor more than forty dollars and costs, 
for each offense. 

Section 78. No person shall at any time hunt, chase, 
catch, kill or destroy any wild bird or any wild animal 
within the following described territory situated on the 
southerly point of Swan Island, in the county of Saga- 
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formerly owned by Robert Reetl to high water mark on the 
shores thereof; nor shall any person at any time hunt, 
chase, catch, kill or destroy any water fowl or any other 
wild bird in Back Bay, so-called, in Portland, in the county 
of Cumberland, above the Grand Trunk Railway Bridge, 
No person shall have in possession at any time any water 
fowl or any other wild bird or any wild animal, or part 
thereof, taken in violation of any provision of this section. 
Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a 
fine of not less than ten, nor more than forty dollars and 
costs, for each offense. 

Section 79. The use of firearms is hereby prohibited 
from the first day of April of each year to the thirtieth 
day of September following, both days inclusive, upon the 
waters of Megunticook Lake, formerly called Canaan Lake, 
and its tributary lakes, ponds and streams, and upon the 
land bordering on the same included within the following 
roads: Beginning at Hopkins Corner, so-called, in the 
town of Camden ; thence via the Turnpike Road, so-called, 
to Lincolnville Center; thence to Wiley's Corner in Lincoln- 
ville; thence to the Mansfield school house tn the town of 
Camden; thence via the Fish Hatchery to place of be- 
ginning; all of said lake, its tributaries and shores being 
located in the towns of Camden, Lincolnville and Hope, 
in the counties of Knox and Waldo. Provided, however, 
that the Camden Rifle Club may establish and maintain 
a rifle range for target practice within the limits above 
mentioned, said practice to be held under the regulations 
of the United States War Department as established by the 
National Board for the promotion of Rifle Practice in the 
United States. Whoever violates any provision of this 
section shall pay a fine of not less than ten, nor more than 
thirty dollars and costs for each offense. 

NON-RESIDENT HUNTERS MUST BE LICENSED. 

Section 59. Persons not bona fide residents of the state, 
and actually domiciled therein, shall not hunt, pursue, 
take or kill any deer, ducks, partridges, woodcock, or other 
wild birds or wild animals, or have the same, or any part 
thereof, in possession at any time without first having 
procured a license therefor as hereinafter provided. Such 
licenses shall be issued by the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game, upon application in writing and pay- 
ment of fifteen dollars to hunt deer, ducks, partridges, 
woodcock and other birds and wild animals during their 



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respective open seasons, and in the manner provided by 
law, in October, November and December. But to hunt 
ducks, and other birds and wild animals in their respective 
open seasons, and in the manner provided by law, in the 
counties of Aroostook, Washington, Hancock, Penobscot, 
Piscataquis, Somerset, Franklin and Oxford up to October 
first of each j^ear a license fee of five dollars shall be paid 
annually, provided, further, that in the counties of An- 
droscoggin, Cumberland, Knox, Kennebec, Lincoln, Saga- 
dahoc, Waldo and York such person may procure a license 
for five dollars to hunt, in the respective open seasons and 
in the manner provided by law, ducks, partridges, wood- 
cock and other birds and wild animals except during the 
month of November, during Avhich month a fifteen dollar 
license shall be required in said counties. A person having 
paid the fee of five dollars may procure a license to hunt 
doer and other wild animals and wild birds, in their 
respective open seasons and in the manner provided by 
law, during the open season on deer by paying an ad- 
ditional fee of ten dollars. Such license shall entitle the 
purchaser to take to his home in addition as now provided, 
properly tagged ,with the tag detachod from his license, 
and open to view, five partridges, ten ducks and ten wood- 
cock that he has himself lawfully killed under such rules 
and regulations to be established by the commissioners as 
may be required to carry out the true intent of this 
chapter and not inconsistent herewith. 

Section 60. Each license shall be provided with two 
coupons, each' of which shall permit the transportation of 
the carcass of one deer or part thereof, and shall be 
divided into two sections eacli. lettered "A" and "B" and 
"C" and "D" respectively, and shall be called the deer 
coupons. 

The holder of a non-resident hunter's license shall be 
entitled to offer for transportation and have transported, 
within or without this state, by any railroad company, 
express company, boat or other transportation company, 
the carcass of one deer, or part of the carcass of one deer, 
that he himself has lawfully killed, on each of the deer 
coupons attached to his said license, by presenting to the 
agent of any transportation company, his license, with the 
coupons attached to the license at the time when he shall 
offer the deer or part thereof for shipment. If but one 
deer is offered for shipment the agent shall detach section 
"A" from the first "deer" coupon of the license, cancel the 
same by writing or stamping thereon the date and place 



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of shipment and his name, and shall forward the same 
forthwith to the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game at Augusta, Maine; section "B" of said coupon shall 
be likewise canceled and shall be attached to the carcass, 
or part of the carcass, of the deer offered for shipment and 
shall remain attached to the same while it is being trans- 
ported in this state. 

In case two deer are offered for shipment the agent re- 
ceiving the same for shipment shall detach sections "A" 
and "C" from the "deer" coupons and after canceling the 
same shall forward them to the commissioners as afore- 
said, and sections "B" and "D" shall be likewise canceled 
and attached to the carcasses of the deer, or parts thereof, 
offered for shipment, and shall remain attached to the 
same while they are being transported in this state. 

Section 61. No person shall transport any deer, or part 
thereof, for any non-resident, otherwise than as provided 
in this section and the two preceding sections. No agent, 
servant or em?)loyee of any transportation company, rail- 
road company, express company, boat or common carrier 
shall receive for shipment or transport, or have in his pos- 
session with Intent to ship or transport- any carcass of a 
deer, or part of the same, or any game birds, for a non- 
resident, except as provided in this section and the two 
preceding sections, or refuse or neglect to detach the sec- 
tions of the coupons as therein provided, or fail to forward 
to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, at 
Augusta, Maine, as therein provided, the sections of 
coupons by him detached; provided, however, that any 
person who has purchased a non-resident hunter's license 
and who has in his possession one pair of game birds 
which he has legally killed may transport the same to his 
home or to any hospital in this state without accompany- 
ing the shipment, by purchasing of the duly constituted 
agent therefor a tag, paying for the same fifty cents, and 
by presenting said tag with the pair of game birds offered 
for shipment to the agent of any transportation company 
or common carrier, together with his non-resident hunter's 
license. Before accepting a pair of game birds for ship- 
ment as herein provided, the agent of the transportation 
company or common carrier to whom the same is offered 
for shipment shall be satisfied that the person presenting 
the pair of game birds for shipment is the person to whom 
the non-resident hunter's license offered for inspection was 
issued, and shall securely affix the tag to such shipment; 
provided, further, that no person shall send more than 
one pair of game birds under a special tag, as provided 
herein, but once in thirty days. 



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Section 62. The possession of any firearm in the fields 
or forests or on the waters or ice of the state by any 
person who is not a bona fide resident of the state and 
actually domiciled therein, unless the person having such 
■ firearm in possession has in his possession a license, as 
provided by section fifty-nine of this chapter, duly issued 
to him and covering the period such firearm is found in 
his possession, shall be prima facie evidence of hunting in 
violation of section fifty-nine of this chapter. Whoever 
violates any provision of the three preceding sections, or 
who shall furnish to another person, or permit another 
person to have or use any license or coupon issued to him, 
or change or alter the same in any manner, or who has or 
uses any license or coupon issued to another person, or 
whoever knowingly guides any non-resident in hunting who 
has not a license to hunt as herein provided, shall pay a 
fine of not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hun- 
dred dollars and costs, for each offense. 



NON-RESIDENT FISHERMEN MUST BE I.ICENSED. 

(Chapter 66, P. L. 1917.) 

Section 1. Persons not bona fide residents of the State, 
and not actually domiciled therein, except children under 
fourteen years of age, shall not fish for, take, catch or kill 
any kind of fish at any time in any of the inland waters 
of the State, or have the same or any part thereof in 
possession, without first having procured a license therefor 
as hereinafter provided. Such licenses shall be of such 
form and style as may be prescribed by the commissioners 
of inland fisheries and game, and shall be issued by town 
clerks and other agents appointed by said commissioners 
under such regulations as may be established by said com- 
missioners, upon application in writing on blanks to be 
furnished by said commissioners and payment of a fee of 
two dollars and fifteen cents. 

Section 2. All licenses issued by virtue of this act shall 
expire with the calendar year in which issued and shall 
entitle the purchaser thereof to take fish in the inland 
waters of this State and transport the same during the 
period covered by said license in accordance with the laws 
of the State. The purchaser of a license to fish by virtue 
of this act may offer for transportation and have trans- 
ported in accordance with the provisions of chapter thirty- 
three of the Revised Statutes fish which he has legally In 



possession by exhibiting his license to the agent of a 
transportation company, who shall endorse upon the back 
thereof, in ink, the name of the station from which said 
shipment is made, the date of shipment, the destination 
and weight of each kind of fish shipped, and such ship- 
ment shall have afllxed thereto a tag plainly marked with 
the name and address of the shipper, the license number 
and the kind and weight of such fish. If a license is pre- 
sented with a consignment of fish and the endorsement on 
such license shows that the holder of the license is not 
authorized by law to offer such fish for shipment, such 
agent shall refuse to accept the same for shipment. 

Section 3. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game may temporarily revoke any license issued by virtue 
of this act when the holder thereof is charged with having 
violated any of the inland fish and game laws of this 
State, and if the holder is convicted of a violation of the 
inland fish and game laws of the State his license may be 
fully revoked and another license shall not be issued to 
such person until after a year from the time of revocation 
except upon written consent of the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game. 

Section 4. No person to whom a license has been issued 
as herein provided, shall fish for, take, catch, kill, have in 
possession, transport or offer for transportation any inland 
fish unless at the time of such fishing for, taking, catching, 
killing, having in possession, transporting or offering for 
transportation inland fish such person has such license on 
his person. Such person shall exhibit such license, on de- 
mand, to any officer authorized to enforce the inland fish 
and game laws. 

Section 5. Every town clerk or agent appointed to issue 
licenses as provided in this act shall on the first Monday 
of each month forward to the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game the amount received, if any, for such 
licenses issued during the preceding month, less a record- 
ing fee of fifteen cents for each license issued, together 
M'ith the application for and stub of each license issued. 
Any town clerk or agent appointed to issue licenses by 
virtue of this act who shall neglect or refuse to issue such 
licenses under regulations established by the commissioners 
of inland fisheries and game, or who shall neglect or refuse 
to remit for licenses issued by virtue of this act within a 
period of thirty days from the first Monday of each month 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five 
dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each 
ofEense. 



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Section 6. All license fees collected by virtue of this 
act shall be paid by the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game to the State treasurer and shall be set apart 
as a fund to be expended by said commissioners, with the 
approval of the governor and council, for the propagation 
and protection of inland fish in this State, and said com- 
missioners are hereby authorized to receive and expend 
said moneys in the manner. and purposes as herein speci- 
fied ; provided, however, that in case of a failure to con- 
vict in any prosecution for any violation of any provision 
of this act, the costs of said prosecution shall be paid out 
of the fund created by this act. 

Section 7. The possession of any fishing tackle in the 
fields or forests or on the waters or ice of the State by 
any non-resident required to be licensed by virtue of this 
act, unless the person having such fishing tackle in posses- 
sion has in his possession a fishing license, as herein pro- 
vided, duly issued to him and covering the period the 
fishing tackle is found in his possession, shall be prima 
facie evidence of fishing in violation of this act. 

PENALTY. 

" Section 8. Whoever violates any provision of sections 
one, two, four, or seven of this act, or who shall furnish 
to another person or permits another person to have or 
use any license issued to him, or changes or alters the 
same in any manner, or who has or uses any license 
issued to another person, or whoever knowingly guides 
any non-resident for inland fishing who has not a license 
for fishing as herein provided, shall pay a fine of not 
less than ten or more than thirty dollars and costs for each 
offense and one dollar additional for each fish taken, 
caught, killed, had in possession or transported in violation 
of any provision of this act. 

NON-RESIDENTS MUST EMPLOY GUIDES IN CERTAIN 

CASES. 

Section 63. Non-residents of the state shall not enter 
upon the wild lands of the state and camp or kindle fires 
thereon while engaged in hunting or fishing, without 
being in charge of a registered guide, during the months 
of May, June, July, August, September, October and 
November, and no registered guide shall, at the same 
time, guide or be employed by more than five non-resi- 
dents in hunting. 



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Any such non-resident who enters upon the wild lands 
of the state and camps or kindles fires thereon, while 
engaged in hunting or fishing without being in charge of 
a registered guide, during the months of May, June, July. 
August, September, October and November, in violation of 
the provisions herein contained, or any guide who shall 
guide at the same time, or be employed by, at the same 
time, more than five non-residents in hunting, shall pay 
a fine of forty dollars and costs for each offense. 



ALIEN HUNTING I.ICENSES. 

Section 65. It shall be unlawful for any unnaturalized 
foreign-born person who is not a tax-payer upon real 
estate within this state and who has not resided within the 
limits of this state for two years continuously prior to the 
time he desires to hunt, to hunt in any manner, at any 
time, or pursue, catch, kill or have in posses<^,ion any wild 
animals or birds, or part or parts thereof, within the 
limits of this state, unless he is annually licensed so to do 
as hereinafter provided. The commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game, upon the application of any un- 
naturalized foreign-born person who is a resident of any 
city, town or plantation within the state, and upon the 
payment of a fee of fifteen dollars may issue to such 
person a license upon a form to be supplied by them, 
bearing the name, age and place of residence of the 
licensee with a description of him as near as may be, 
authorizing the said licensee to hunt and kill game birds, 
game or other wild animals on any lands on which said 
hunting or killing is not forbidden by law, or by written 
or printed notices posted thereon by the owner, lessee 
or occupant thereof. Such license shall authorize the 
hunting or killing and having in possession of game birds, 
game or other wild animals only in their respective open 
seasons and in the manner provided by law; it shall not 
be transferable and shall be exhibited upon demand to 
any of the commissioners of inland fisheries and game, 
and to any inland fish and game warden or deputy inland 
fish and game warden, and to any sheriff, constable, 
police officer or other officer qualified to serve process. 
The fees received from said licenses shall annually be 
paid into the state treasury. 

Section 66. No unnaturalized, foreign-born person re- 
quired to be licensed under the provisions of the preceding 
section shall have in possession, when he is upon the wild 



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lauds or in the woods or fields of the state, any firearm 
or firearms unless he is licensed as herein provided and 
all firearms found in his possession in violation of this 
section shall be forfeit and contraband and shall be seized 
by any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and 
game laws. All firearms seized by virtue of this section 
shall forthwith be forwarded to the commissioners at 
Augusta by the person seizing the same, and upon con- 
viction of the person or persons from whom they were 
seized said firearms shall be sold, and the proceeds from 
such sale paid to the treasurer of state. Whoever violates 
any provision of ttiis or the preceding section shall pay 
a fine of twenty-five dollars and costs, for each offense. 



GUIDES MUST BE LICENSED. 

Section 14. No person shall engage in the business of 
guiding, either for inland fishing or forest or shore 
hunting, until he has caused his name, age and residence 
to be recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game and has pro- 
cured a certificate from said commissioners, setting forth 
in substance that he is deemed suitable to act as such 
guide, under a penalty of fifty dollars and costs for each 
offense. Each registered guide shall, from time to time, 
as often as requested by the commissioners, forward, on 
blanks furnished him by the commissioners, a statement 
of the number of persons he has guided in inland fishing 
and forest and shore hunting during the time called for 
in said statement, the number of days he has been em- 
ployed as a guid'e, and such other useful information 
relative to inland fish and game, forest fires, and the 
preservation of the forests in the localities where he has 
guided, as the commissioners may deem of importance to 
the state, under a penalty of fifty dollars for unreasonably 
or wilfully refusing: to comply with these requirements. 

Section 15. Such registration shall be as follows : The 
applicant shall apply in writing or personally to the com- 
missioners for registration, or to some person designated 
by the commissioners, setting forth in his application 
whether he desires to be registered as a general or local 
guide; and the commissioners shall, as .soon thereafter 
as may be, after such investigation as they deem advisable, 
register such person as a guide in such class as they shall 
deem proper; but said commissioners may refuse to 



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register any applicant wliom they deem unfit to be a g-uide, 
and may, for cause shown, after due notice and hearing, 
cancel any registration by them made, and may advance 
anyone from the local class -to the general class, whenever 
they shall deem such person qualified to be a general 
guide. A fee of one dollar shall be paid annually for the 
registration as herein provided. 

No person shall receive a certificate as a general guide 
unless he be at least twenty years of age, of good repute, 
and friendly to the inland fish and game laws, and will 
discountenance in all proper ways all violations thereof. 
He shall be thoroughly competent to traverse the hunting 
grounds in which he is licensed to guide and shall be 
skilled in the use, management, and handling of such 
boats or canoes, on lake, pond or river or other waters, 
as are used in the territory in which he is authorized to 
guide, and shall be a safe person under all circumstances 
to be a guide for inland fishing and forest and shore 
hunting parties. A person may receive a certificate as 
a local guide who does not, in the judgment of the com- 
missioners, possess all -the necessary qualifications of a 
general guide, yet is deemed suitable to act as such under 
certain conditions; and guides may be restricted in the 
territory in which they are permitted to guide. The com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game may, in their 
discretion, license as guides such non-residents as reside 
in territory contiguous to the state under such conditions 
as are herein provided for the registration of resident 
guides; the annual fee for such non-resident guide license 
shall be twenty dollars. 

Whenever a guide registered, as provided in this section, 
is charged with having violated any of the inland fish and 
game laws, the commissioners may, at their discretion, 
temporarily suspend his certificate of registration ; and 
whenever a guide registered, as provided in this section, 
is convicted of a violation of the inland fish and game 
laws, said commissioners may, at their discretion, cancel 
his certificate of registration and strike his name from 
the list of registered guides ; but such person may there- 
after be registered again at the discretion of the com- 
missioners. Any certificate cancelled or suspended by 
virtue of this section shall be immediately returned to the 
commissioners, under a penalty of fifty dollars for re- 
fusal or neglect to comply with this requirement. 



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CERTAIN SPORTING CAMPS MUST BE LICENSED. 

Section 16. No person shall maintain, occupy or keep a 
sporting camp, lodge or place of resort for inland hunting 
or fishing parties within the limits of any of the unor- 
ganized townships embraced in the Maine Forestry Dis- 
trict without annually procuring a license therefor of the 
commissioners of inland fisheries and game and paying 
therefor a fee of five dollars ; but such license shall not be 
granted unless the person applying for the same files with 
his application therefor the written consent of the owner 
or owners of the land, or his or their agent, upon which 
such sporting camp, lodge or place of resort for inland 
fishing and hunting parties is or may be located ; and 
such licensed persons may purchase for consumption in 
their sporting camps, lodges or places of resort, deer 
lawfully killed, but they shall keep a record of all such 
purchases, of whom purchased and the date of the purchase, 
and on the fifteenth day of December of each year shall 
send such record to the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game together with a report of the number of resi- 
dents and non-residents entertained in such camp, and such 
other useful information relative to the inland fish and 
game interests as the commissioners may deem of im- 
portance to the state. The commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game may refuse to issue a license or licenses to 
such person or persons as they deem unsuitable. Whoever 
violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of 
fifty dollars and costs for each offense. 



TAXIDERMISTS MUST BE LICENSED. 

Section G7. The commissioners of inlnnd fisheries and 
game may, upon application and payment of a fee of two 
dollars by the applicant, issue a license to such persons 
as taxidermists, who, in their judgment, are skilled in 
that art, of good reputation, and friendly to the inland 
fish and game laws of the state; taxidermists licensed as 
aforesaid may at all times have in their possession, at 
their places of business, fish and game lawfully caught 
or killed in open time, for the sole purpose of preparing 
and mounting the same; and such fish and game, or parts 
thereof, may be transported to such licensee and retained 
by him for the purposes aforesaid, under such rules, re- 
strictions and limitations as shall, from time to time, be 
made by said commissioners. Such licenses may be re- 



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yoked by said commissioners, at any time after notice and 
an opportunity for a hearing ; eacli person so licensed 
sliall, on or before the twemtieth day of December of each 
yea'r, make a detailed report to said commissioners of all 
they have done during the year by virtue of such license; 
every licensee or common carrier violating any provision 
of this chapter, •r any of the rules, restrictions, or limita- 
tions made by said commissioners in accordance with the 
provisions of this section, shall pay a fine of not less than 
twenty, nor more than fifty dollars and costs for each 
offense. 

DEALERS IN DEER SKINS MUST BE I.ICENSED. 

Section 68. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game may annually issue licenses to residents of this 
state to buy and sell deer skins, and the heads of deer 
if not detached from said skins, during the months of 
January, October, November and December. Such licensee 
shall keep a record, which shall be open to inspection by 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game or any 
person authorized to -enforce the inland fish and game 
laws, of all such heads and skins purchased, of whom 
purchased and the date of each purchase, and shall send 
such record annually to the comrnissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game on or before the twentieth day of De- 
cember of each year. The fee for such license shall be ten 
dollars, to be paid to the said commissioners. All deer 
skins and deer heads purchased by virtue of this section 
shall be transported only under such rules, restrictions 
and limitations as shall, from time to time, be made by 
said commissioners. Whoever buys any skins ©r heads of 
deer without being licensed as herein provided, or who- 
ever, licensed as aforesaid, neglects to keep the record and 
forward the same to said commissioners as herein pro- 
vided, or whoever refuses to exhibit said record upon re- 
quest to the commissioners of inland fisheries and game 
or to any person authorized to enforce the inland fish and 
game laws, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs for 
each offense. 

FUR BUYERS MUST BE LICENSED. 

Section 69. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game may annually issue licenses to residents of this 
state to engage ui the business of buying otter, sable or 
fisher skins or the skins of any other fur-bearing animals. 



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Said licensee shall keep a record, which shall be open to 
inspection by the commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game or any person authorized to enforce the inland fish 
and game laws, of all skins purchased, as aforesaid, in an 
appropriate book furnished them by the said commis- 
sioners, and shall send such record, under oath, to said 
commissioners on or before the twentieth day of De- 
cember of each year. The fee for such license shall be 
two dollars to be paid to the said commissioners. Who- 
ever buys any skins of otter, sable or fisher or the skins 
of any other fur-bearing animals without being licensed as 
herein provided, or whoever, licensed as aforesaid, neglects 
to keep the record and forward the same to said com- 
missioners as herein provided, or whoever refuses to ex- 
hibit said book for inspection by the commissioners of 
inland fisheries and game or any person authorized to 
enforce the inland fish and game laws, shall pay a fine of 
ten dollars and costs for each oflfense. All skins of fur- 
bearing animals bought in violation of the provisions of 
this section shall be forfeit and contraband and shall be 
seized by any person authorized to enforce the inland fish 
and game laws and upon conviction of the person or 
persons from whom they were seized, they shall be sold, 
and the proceeds from such sale paid to the treasurer of 
state. 

MARKETMEN MUST BE I.ICENSED. 

Section 70. Any marketman or provision dealer having 
an established place of business in the state, may pur- 
chase and have in possession at his said place of business 
not more than three deer, lawfully killed or destroyed, or 
amy part thereof, at one time, and may sell the same at 
retail to his local customers, and may sell the heads of 
such deer to any licensed taxidermist; provided, however, 
that said marketman or provision dealer, shall annually 
procure a license of the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game to carry on said business of buying and selling 
deer as aforesaid ; and provided, further, that said market- 
man shall record in a book kept for that purpose, and 
open to the inspection of inland fish and game wardens, 
deputy inland fish and game wardens and the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, the name and resi- 
dence of each person of whom he purchases any deer, and 
the date of such purchase; and if any marketman or pro- 
vision dealer shall violate any provision of this section, 



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he shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars, for each 
offense, and be prohibited for five years thereafter from 
the benefits of this section. All marketmen or provision 
dealers licensed as aforesaid shall pay to the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game in cities and towns 
of over three thousand inhabitants, five dollars annually, 
and three dollars in all other places ; said marketmen and 
provision dealers holding these licenses shall, on the 
twentieth daj' of each December, make, sign and send to 
the commissioners, under oath, a statement setting forth 
in detail the number of deer by them bought, and of whom 
bought, and the date of each purchase, during the time 
covered by their licenses ; and whoever fails to make such 
report shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars and costs. 



EXPIRATION AND REVOCATION OF LICENSES. 

Section 71. All licenses or certificates issued by virtue 
of the provisions of this chapter shall expire with the 
calendar year in which issued. 

Section 72. If the holder of any license, certificate or 
permit, issued in conformity with any provision of this 
chapter, is charged with having violated or countenanced 
the violation of any provision of this chapter, the com- 
missioners may, at their discretion, temporarily suspend 
such license, certificate or permit ; and whenever the 
holder of such license, certificate or permit, as provided in 
this section, is convicted of the violation of any provision 
of this chapter, said commissioners may, at their dis- 
cretion, cancel such license, certificate or permit and strike 
his name from the official record ; but such license, cer- 
tificate or permit may again be issued at the discretion 
of the commissioners. Any license, certificate or permit 
suspended or canceled by virtue of this section shall be 
immediately returned to the commissioners, under a 
penalty of fifty dollars for refusal or neglect to comply 
with this requirement. 



WARDENS. APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES. 

Section 10. The governor, with the advice and consent 
of the council, upon the recommendation of the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, may appoint suitable 
persons as inland fish and game wardens, who shall hold 
office for a term of three years unless sooner removed, 



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and who shall enforce all laws relating to inland fisheries 
and game, and all rules and regulations in relation thereto, 
arrest all violators thereof, and prosecute all offenses 
against the same; said inland fish and game wardens shall 
have the same power to serve criminal processes against 
such offenders, and shall be allowed the same fees as 
sheriffs, for like services, and they shall have the same 
right as sheriffs to require aid in executing the duties of 
their office. They shall, before being qualified to^ dis- 
charge the duties required by this chapter, give bond to 
the treasurer of state, in the sum of two thousand dollars, 
with two sureties, or with a surety company authorized to 
do business in the state, as surety, approved by the com- 
missioners of inland fisheries and game, conditioned for 
the faithful performance of the duties of their office. In- 
land fish and game wardens may serve all processes per- 
taining to the collection of penalties for violation of the 
inland fish and game laws. 

Section 11. Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, police officers and 
constables are vested with the powers of inland fish and 
game wardens, and shall receive for their services the 
same fees. 



TOWN FISH AND GAME WARDENS. 

Section 12. Any city, town or plantation in which there 
is a lake or pond that has been stocked with fish by the 
state and screened partly by the state and partly by the 
town or by private subscription, may, at its annual meet 
ing, elect an inland fish and game warden, with all the 
powers of other inland fish and game wardens, whose duty 
it shall be to care for and protect said screen. 



DEPUTY WARDENS. 

Section 13. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game may appoint inland fish and game deputy wardens 
and may revoke such appointment at any time. The ap- 
pointment and discharge of such deputy wardens shall be 
in writing, and they shall have the same powers and be" 
subject to the same laAvs. as inland fish and game wardens 
appointed by the governor and council. All such appoint- 
ments shall terminate with the calendar year in which 
the appointment is made. 



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SEIZURE OF BIRDS, FISH, GAME AND OTHER WILD 
ANIMALS. 

Section 81. All birds, fish, game or other wild animals, 
or parts thereof, hunted, caught, killed, destroyed, bought, 
sold, carried, transported, or found in possession of any 
person or corporation, in violation of any provision of this 
chapter, shall be liable to seizure, and in case of con- 
viction for such violation, the same shall be forfeited to 
the state, to be sold for the benefit of the state. Any per- 
son vi^hose birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts 
thereof, has been seized for violation of any game or fish 
law, shall have it returned to him on giving to the officer 
a bond with sufficient sureties, who shall be residents of 
the state, in double the amount of the fine for such viola- 
tion, conditioned that, if convicted of such violation, he 
will, within thirty days thereafter, pay such fine and costs. 
If he neglects or refuses to give such bond and take the 
birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts thereof, 
so seized, he shall have no action against the officer for 
such seizure or for the loss of the birds, fish, game or 
other wild animals, or parts thereof, seized. 

SEIZURES MUST BE REPORTED. 

Section 82. In all cases, the officer making any seizure 
or sale of birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts 
thereof, shall within ten days thereafter, report all the 
particulars thereof and an itemized statement of the pro- 
ceeds, expenses and fees, and the disposition thereof to 
the commissioners of inland fisheries and game at Augusta. 
The failure of any person or officer to perform any act, 
duty, or obligation enjoined upon him by this chapter, 
shall be deemed a violation thereof. 

SEARCH AND SEIZURE. 

Section 83. The commissioners of inland fisheries and 
game and every inland fish and game warden and deputy 
inland fish and game warden may arrest, with or without 
a warrant, any person whom he has reason to believe 
guilty of a violation of any provision of this chapter and 
with or without a warrant, may open, enter and examine 
all buildings, camps, vessels, boats, wagons, cars, stages, 
tents, and other receptacles and places, and examine all 



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boxes, barrels and packages where he has reason to be- 
lieve that birds, fish, game or other wild animals, or parts 
thereof, taken or held in violation of this chapter are to 
be found, and seize such birds, fish, game or other wild 
animals, or i>arts thereof, if any be found therein ; but no 
dwelling-house shall be searched for the above purposes 
without a warrant aiM then only in the day time, and no 
sealed railroad car shall be entered for the above purposes 
without such warrant. Any magistrate may issue war- 
rants to search, within his jurisdiction, any dwelling- 
house, in the day time, or any other place at any time for 
the purposes above set forth, to any inland fish and game 
commissioner or to any inland fish and game warden or 
deputy inland fish and game warden, sheriff or any of his 
deputies ; such warrants shall be issued subject to the re- 
quirements of section thirteen of chapter one hundred and 
thirty-four; provided, however, that the inland fish and 
game commissioners shall, on or before the first day of 
October of each year, in writing, notify the superintend- 
ents of all transportation companies doing business within 
the state, of the names of the inland fish and game ward- 
ens and deputy inland fish and game wardens by them 
designated to exercise the right of search of railroad cars 
as herein provided, and no others shall, except those so 
designated, be authorized to exercise the powers herein 
mentioned as to search- of railroad cars. 



ARREST OF VIOLATORS AND JURISDICTION OF 
COURTS. 

Section 84. Any ofiicer authorized to enforce *the inland 
fish and game laws may, without process, arrest any 
violator of said laws, and shall with reasonable diligence, 
cause him to be taken before any trial justice or any 
municipal or police court, in the county where the offense 
was committed, or in any adjoining county, for a warrant 
and trial. Jurisdiction in such cases is hereby granted 
to all trial justices and all other courts to be exercised 
in the same manner as if the offense had been committed 
in that county; and any officer who shall maliciously, or 
without probable cause, abuse his power in such pro- 
ceedings shall upon conviction be punished by a ftne of 
not exceeding one hundred dollars, and costs, or by Im- 
prisonment not exceeding three months. 



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PENALTY FOR ASSAULTING AN OFFICER. 

(Sec. 23, Ch. 124, R. S., as am. by Ch. 16, P. L., 1917.) 
Whoever assaults, intimidates, or in any manner wil- 
fully obstructs, intimidates or hinders any sheriff, deputy 
sheriff, coroner, constable, fish warden, inland fish and 
game warden or police officer while in the lawful dis- 
charge of his official duties, whether with or without 
process, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 
one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. 



PENALTY FOR FALSELY ASSUMING TO BE AN 
OFFICER. 

(Ch. 124, R. S.) 

Section 25. Whoever falsely assumes to be a justice of 
the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner or constable, or 
inland fish and game warden or a commissioner of inland 
fisheries and game, and to act as such, or to require any 
one to aid him in a matter pertaining to the duty of such 
office, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 
one year, or by fine not exceeding four hundred dollars. 

GAME WARDENS ARE FIRE WARDENS. 

(Ch. 8, R. S.) 

Section 34. Fish and game wardens are hereby made 
state fire wardens; they shall, while in and about the 
woods, caution all sportsmen of the danger from fires in 
the woods, and extinguish all fires left burning Dy any 
one, if within their power; and shall give notice to any 
and all parties interested when possible, of fires raging 
and beyond their control, to the end that the same may 
be controlled and extinguished. 

JURISDICTION OF COURTS. 

Section 85. Trial justices, police and municipal courts 
within their counties shall have, upon complaint, original 
and concurrent jurisdiction with the supreme judicial 
court and superior courts in all prosecutions under any 
inland fish and game law. 



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DISPOSITION OF FINES AND PENALTIES. 

Section 8(5. All fines and penalties recovered, or money 
received or collected, under any provision of this chapter, 
after deducting legal taxable costs, shall be paid forth- 
with by the person receiving the same to the commis- 
sioners of inland fisheries and game, at Augusta, Maine, 
to be paid by them to the treasurer of state. Any officer 
or other person who shall receive any fine or penalty or 
any part thereof, for the violation of any inland fish or 
game law, and shall neglect for more than thirty days 
to pay the same to the commissioners of inland fisheries 
and game, as herein provided, shall pay a fine of not less 
than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, and costs 
of prosecution for each oflfense. 

SERVICE OF AVARRANTS ON CORPORATIONS. 

Section 88. In case of violation of any provision of this 
chapter by a corporation, the warrant may be served by 
an attested copy, on tlie president, secretary, manager, or 
any general agent thereof in the county where the action 
is pending, and upon return of such warrant so served, 
the corporation shall be deemed in court and subject to 
the jurisdiction thereof, and any fine imposed may be 
collected by execution against the property of such cor- 
poration ; but this section shall not be deemed to exempt 
any agent or employee from prosecution. 

DUTIES OF COUNTY ATTORNEYS. 

Section 89. Each county attorney shall prosecute all 
violations of this chapter occurring within his county, 
when such cases may come to his knowledge, or when he 
may be so requested by the commissioners of inland fish- 
eries and game, or any officer charged with its enforce- 
ment; such prosecution shall at all times be subject to 
the supervision and control of the commissioners. 

PARTICIPANT IN VIOLATION MUST TESTIFY. 

Section 90. In any prosecution under this chapter, any 
participant in a violation thereof, when so requested by 
the county attorney, commissioners of inland fisheries ana 
game, or other officer instituting the prosecution, may be 
compelled to testify as a witness against any other per- 
son charged with violating the same, but his evidence so 
given shall not be used against himself in any prosecution 
for such violation. 

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PROSECUTIONS MUST BE REPORTED. 

Section 91. Every magistrate or the clerk of tbe court 
before whom any prosecution under this chapter is com- 
menced, or shall go on appeal, within twenty days after 
the trial or dismissal thereof, shall report in writing the 
result thereof and the amount of fines collected, if any, 
and the disposition thereof, to the commissioners of inland 
fisheries and game at Augusta. 

MOTOR BOATS MUST BE MUFFL,ED. 

(Chapter 23, R. S.) 

Section 13. All motor boats run or operated in any 
tidal or other waters within the state, shall be provided, 
or equipped with proper and suitable mufllers or other 
devices, which shall effectually deaden sound. Said 
mufflers shall be used all the time the engine of the motor 
boat is in operation ; provided that it shall be allowable 
to cut out said mufflers, in case of boats while entered and 
competing in boat races held under the auspices of some 
regularly organized club, between the hours of eight 
o'clock in the morning and sunset following. 

Section 14. Any muffling device approved by the United 
States inspectors having jurisdiction of the tidal waters 
of this state shall, in case of motor boj^ts run or operated 
on such tidal or other waters in the state, be deemed to 
be a compliance with the preceding section, provided such 
defense shall be set up and proved by the defendant. 

Section 15. Whoever violates any provision of sections 
thirteen and fourteen between eight o'clock in the forenoon 
and eight o'clock at night, shall be punished by a fine of 
not les4 than five dollars nor more than twenty-five 
dollars; whoever violates any provision of said sections 
between eight o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock 
In the forenoon shall be subject to a double penalty; and 
any such violation shall be deemed a common nuisance 
within the meaning of section twelve of this chapter. 

TO PREVENT COLLISIONS ON INLAND WATERS. 

(Ch. 59, R. S.) 

Section 4. Every boat navigating any lake, river, 
stream, pond or other inland waters of this state, between 
the hours of sunset and sunrise, whether propelled by 



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steam or any other power, shall show either a bright white 
light of such a character and so placed as to be visible ou 
a clear dark night, at least one-half mile in every di- 
rection, or instead thereof one green light on the star- 
board side and one red light on the port side, so con- 
structed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the 
horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw 
the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam 
on the starboard and port sides, respectively, and of such 
a character as to be visible at least two thousand feet on 
a clear dark night. Whoever neglects or wilfully refuses 
to observe the provisions of this section shall be liable to 
a penalty of ten dollars, and for all damages sustained 
by any person thereby. 

TRESPASS I.AW. 

(Ch. 129, R. S.) 

Section 20. Whoever wilfully enters on or passes over 
the garden, orchard, mowing land or other enclosed or 
cultivated land of another, between the first days of April 
and December, after being forbidden so to do by the owner 
or occupant of said land or his agent, either personally 
or by notice posted conspicuously on the premises, is 
guilty of trespass, and shall be punished by fine not ex- 
ceeding twenty dollars, and section twenty-two applies to 
violations of this section. 

(Ch. 129, R. S.) 

Section 22. The owner of such place, or any person 
employed in its cultivation, or rightfully in the possession 
thereof, may 'arrest any person found violating the pre- 
ceding section, and carry him before any magistrate 
within the county where the arrest is made. 

CAMP FIRES. 

(Ch. 8, R. S.) 
Section 35. Whoever by himself, or by his servant, 
agent or guide, or as the servant, agent or guide of any other 
person, shall build a camp, cooking or other fire, or use 
an abandoned camp, cooking or other fire In or adjacent 
to any woods in this state, shall, before leaving such fire, 
totally extinguish the same, and upon failure to do so 



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such person shall be punished by a fine of fifty dollars, 

provided that such fires built upon tlie sea beach in such 
situation that they cannot .spread into forest land, wood- 
land, or cultivated lands or meadows, shall not be con- 
strued as prohibited by this section. One-half of any fine 
imposed and collected under this section shall be paid to 
the complainant. 

Chap. 8, Sec. 36. CAMP FIRES MUST BE TOTALLY 
EXTINGUISHED BEFORE breaking camp, under penalty 
of not to exceed one month's imprisonment or one hundred^ 
dollars fine, or both, as provided by law. 

Chap. 30, Sec. 15. WHOEVER KINDLES A FIRE, ON 
LAND NOT HIS OWN without consent of the owner for- 
feits ten dollars; if such fire spreads and damages the 
property of others, he forfeits not less than ten, nor more 
than five hundred dollars; and, in either case, he shall 
stand committed until fine and costs are paid, or he shall 
be imprisoned not more than three years. 

Chap. 30, Sec. 16. WHOEVER WITH INTENT TO IN- 
JURE ANOTHER, CAUSES A fire to be kindled on his, 
or another's land, whereby the property of any other per- 
son is injured or destroyed, shall be fined not less than 
twenty nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned 
not less than three months, nor more than three years. 

Chap. 30, Sec. 17. WHOEVER FOR A LAWFUL PUR- 
POSE KINDLES A FIRE ON HIS own land shall do so 
at a suitable time and in a careful and prudent manner ; 
and is liable in an action on the case, to any person in- 
jured by his failure to comply with this provision. 

Chap. 30, Sec. 18. PERSONS ENGAGED IN DRIVING 
LUMBER MAY KINDLE fires when necessary, but shall 
use the utmost caution to prevent them from spreading 
and doing damage, and if they fail so to^ do, they are 
subject to all the foregoing liabilities and penalties, as if 
said privilege had not been allowed. 



HUNTING ACCIDENTS. 

(Ch. 120, R. S.j 

Section 3. Whoever while on a hunting trip, or in the 
pursuit of wild game or game birds, negligently or care- 
lessly shoots and wounds, or kills any human being, shall 
be punished in the discretion of the court, by imprison- 
ment for not more than ten years, or by fine not exceeding 
one thousand dollars. 



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Section 4. County attorneys and sheriffs, in their re- 
spective counties, shall promptly investigate any alleged 
violations of the preceding section and prosecute every 
person accused thereof; for failure so to investigate and 
prosecute, each of said officers shall be punished by fine 
not exceeding one thousand dollars, and shall be removed 
from office. * 

THE GOVERNOR MAY DECLARE A CLOSE SEASON 
DURING A DANGEROUSLY DRY TIME. 

(Ch. 8, R. S.) 

Section 38. Whenever, during an open season for the 
hunting of any kind of game or game birds in this state, 
it shall appear to the governor that, by reason of drought, 
the possession of firearms in the forests is liable to cause 
forest fires, he ma!i% by proclamation suspend the open 
season and make it a close season for such time as he 
may designate. 

Section 39. During the time which shall by such 
proclamation be made a close season, all provisions of 
law covering and relating to the close season shall be in 
force, and a person violating a provision of the same shall 
be subject to the penalty therein prescribed. Whoever 
enters upon the wild lands of the state carrying ©r having 
in his possession any firearms, or shoots during the close 
season fixed by proclamation of the governor, as provided 
in the preceding section, any wild animal or bird for the 
hunting of which there is no close season otherwise pro- 
vided by law, shall be punished by a fine of one hundred 
dollars and costs. 

Section 40. Such proclamation shall be published in such 
newspapers of the state and posted in such places and in 
such manner as the governor may order in writing. A 
copy of such proclamation and order, shall be' filed with 
the secretary of state. A like attested copy shall be fur- 
nished to the forest commissioner, who shall attend to the 
posting and publication of the proclamation. All expense 
thereof and all the expense of enforcing the provisions of 
the proclamation shall be paid by said commissioner, after 
allowance by the state auditor, from any funds In the 
state treasury not otherwise appropriated. 

Section 41. If after issuing the proclamation as pro- 
vided in section thirty-eight, by reason of rains or other- 
wise, the governor is satisfied that the occasion has passed 
for the issuance of the proclamation, he may annul it by 
another proclamation issued as provided for the issuance 
of the first proclamation. 



FEDERAL LAWS 
THE LrACEY ACT. 

For the information of shippers, etc., we submit here- 
with Sections 241 to 244 of the Criminal Code, 35 Stat. 
1137) which are Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Lacey Act, so 
called : 

"Section 241* The importation into the United States, or 
any Territory or District thereof, of the mongoose, the 
so-called 'flying foxes' or fruit bats, the English sparrow, 
the starling, and such other birds and animals as the 
Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time declare 
to be injurious to the interests of agriculture or horti- 
culture, is hereby prohibited ; and all such birds and 
animals shall, upon arrival at any port of the United 
States, be destroyed or returned at the expense of the 
owner. No person shall import into the United States or 
into any Territory or District thereof any foreign wild 
animal or bird, except under special permit from the 
Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That nothing In this 
section shall restrict the importation 'of natural-history 
specimens for museums or scientific collections, or of cer- 
tain cage birds, such as domesticated canaries, parrots, or 
such other birds as the Secretary of Agriculture may 
designate. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby 
authorized to make regulations for carrying into effect the 
provisions of this section. 

"Section 242. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
deliver to any common carrier for transportation, or for 
any common carrier to transport from any State, Ter- 
ritory, or District of the United States, to any other State, 
Territory, or District thereof, any foreign animals or 
birds, the importation of which is prohibited, or the dead 
bodies or parts thereof of any wild animals or birds, 
where such animals or birds have been killed or shipped 
in violation of the laws of the State. Territory, or District 
in which the same were killed, or from which they were 
shipped : Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the 
transportation of any dead birds or animals killed during 
the season when the same may be lawfully captured, and 
the export of which is not prohibited by law in the State, 
Territory, or District in which the same are captured or 
killed: Provided further, That nothing herein shall prevent 
the importation, transportation, or sale of birds or bira 
plumage manul!actured from the feathers of barnyard 
fowls. 

"Section 243. All packages containing the dead bodies, 
or the plumage, or parts thereof, of game animals, or 
game or other wild birds, when shipped in interstate or 
foreign commerce, shall be plainly and clearly marked, so 
that the name and address of the shipper, and the nature 
of the contents, may be readily ascertained on an In- 
spection of the outside of such package. 

"Section 244. For each evasion or violation of any pro- 
vision of the three sections last preceding, the shipper 
shall be fined not more than $200: the consignee knowingly 
receiving such articles so shipped and transported in vio- 
lation of said sections shall be fined not more than $200; 
and the carrier knowingly carrying or transporting the 
same in violation of said sections shall be fined not more 
than $200." 



INDEX 



A 

PAGE 

Abbott ponrl, Sumner, Ox. Co., spl. law on 18 

Accidents while hunting 84 

Advance baiting prohibited 35 

Air rifles cannot be sold or given away to children 

under 14 years of age 50 

Alder brook, tr. to Webb's pond, Franklin Co 9 

Alder St. and tribs., Frank. Co., spl. law on 9 

Alford's lake, Knox. Co., tribs. closed 14 

Alien residents, certain, must take out license to 

hunt 70 

Allagash lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Allen brook, trib. to Prestile stream, Aroos. Co., 

closed 7 

Ambejejus lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Ambejejus lake. Pise. Co., taking of white fish in 38 

Androscoggin County deer law 45 

Androscoggin County, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Androscoggin County, special fish laws in 5-6 

Androscoggin lake, And. and Ken. Cos., closed to 

ice fishing 6 

Animals, wild (except beaver) and birds destroy- 
ing property may be killed 55 

Annabessacook lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 
Anonvmous pond. Cumberland Co., closed to ice 

fishing ■ 7 

Arrest of violators ' 79 

Aroostook Co., deer law 45 

Aroostook county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Aroostook county, special fish laws in 6-7 

Artificial culture of fish, sale and transportation of 43-44 
Artificial flies, minnows and insects, use of in fish- 
ing 31 

Artificial lights, us6 of in hunting game and birds 

prohibited 46 

Artificial ponds, protection of 44 

Assaulting an officer, penalty for 80 

Assuming falsely to be a warden, commissioner or 

other official 80 

Auburn, Lake, And. Co., closed to ice fishing 6 

Auburn. Lake. And. Co., tribs. closed 6 

Automobile, hunting from prohibited 49 

Authority of Commrs. in settlement of cases out of 

court 43 

Aziscohos lake. Ox. Co.. fly flshing only, special 

limit on, tributaries closed 17-18 

B 

"B" pond. Ox. Co., special law on 18 

"B" pond. Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

Back Bay. Portland, above G. T. Ry. Bridge, un- 
lawful to hunt birds in 64 

Baiting, advance, prohibited , ,.,.., 35 



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PAGE 

Bait fish, taking of 32 

Bar Harbor (Eden) certain lauds in closed to 

liunting 63 

Barker pond, Ox. & Cumb. Co., open to ice fishing 15 
Barker pond, Cornville, Som^ Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 23 

Bartlett's Island, Han. Co., hunting prohibited on 03 

Basin pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing - 13 

Bass, black, closed season on, daily limit, trans., \ 

&c 4-29-30.31 

Beals (or Pickerel) pond, And. Co., tribs. closed.. 6 
Bean brook Som. Co., a trib. to Parlin stream, 

closed 24 

Bears, bounty on r)7-5S 

Bear pond, in Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 15 

Beaver Dam brook (or Whitney brook) tr. to Mat- 

taAvamkeag river, and tribs., closed 7 

Beaver brook, in Holeb, Som. Co., closed 24 

Beaver pond, in Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 15 

Beaver ponds. The, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

Beaver ponds. Ox. Co., special law on IS 

Beaver, protection of 52-53 

Belgrade lakes, spl. laws on 29-30 

Belgrade lakes, law on tribs. to 14 

Belgrade stream, closed except from Snow pond to 

Belgrade Bridge 14 

Bennett ponds. The, Piscataquis Co., open to ice 

fishing 21 

Bent's pond, Frank, and Ken. Cos., closed 9-13-14 

Berry pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing, tribs. 

closed 13-14 

Bickford pond, in Porter, open to ice fishing 15 

Big Benson pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.... 21 

Big Huston pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Big Indian pond, St. Albans, Som. Co.. open to ice 

fishing 24 

Big Inlet brook, Frank. Co., closed 

Big Turner pond. Som. Co., special limit on 20 

Big Wood pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Bigelow pond, Franklin Co., tribs. closed S 

Bird pond, in Norway, open to ice fishing 15 

Birds, game, prohibite<l devices for hunting 01 

Birds, game, protection of 59 

Birds, game, resident must have license to take 

out of state 00 

Birds, game, sale and i)urchase of prohibited 6§ 

Birds, Comm'rs. may give permits to take for cer- 
tain purposes 38-39 

Birds, Avild (other than game) and nests and eggs 

protected 01 

Birds which are not protected at nny time 01 

Birds, wild, and animals, (except beaver) found 

destroying property may be killed 55 

Bittern, (mud hen) not protected 61 

Black bass, daily limit and length of which may 

be taken 29 

Black bass, protection, trans. &c., of under genl. 

laws 4-29-30-31 

Black bass, sale and purchase of prohibited 30 



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Black-breasted plover, protection of 50 

Black game protected 62 

Black pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co.. open to ice fishing 15 
Black Hill pond, (or Lake Spiteful). Som. Co., 

open to ice fi.shing 24 

Blanchard pond. Frawk. Co.. .spl. law on 9 

Blanchard brook, Frank. Co.. closed 

Blue herons, not protected Gl 

Blunt's pond, in Lamoine, Han. Co.. closed to ice 

fishing 12 

Boats, lights on required ^'2-f<^ 

Bob-cat. bounty on 55 

Bog stream and tribs.. down to No. Pond St.. Ken. 

and Fk. Cos., closed n 

Bond, wardens' 77 

Bond, when game or birds are seized 7S 

Bog Pond in Fryeburg. Ox. Co.. open to ice fishing 15 

Bonneg-beg pond, York Co., tribs. closed 28 

Bonneg-beg pond, York Co.. closed to ice fishing 2S 

Booker brook. Levant, Pen. Co.. closed 20 

Bottle Lake. Pen. Co.. a trib. to. closed 20 

Boiinty on bob-cat, loupcerviier and Canada lynx. 

also bears 55-50-57-58 

Bowlin pond, Pen. Co.. closed to ice fishing 20 

Boyd's pond. York Co.. close'i 28 

Bradley pond, in Lovell, Ox. Co.. open to ice fish- 
ing 15 

Brant, protection of 59 

Brassua lake, Som. Co., «i)en to ice fishing and 

inlet closed 23-25 

Brewer pond. Pen. & Han. Cos., spl. limit for ice 

fishing 20 

Brooks, streams and rivers, general law on fishing 

in ■ 4 

Bryant's pond, in Woodstock. Ox. Co.. tribs. closed 17 

Bubble pond, Han. Co.. tribs. closed 1^ 

Bull moose, close time on 45 

Bungamuck pond, in Hartford. Ox. Co.. open to ice 

fishing 15 

Burntland brook, Aroos. Co 7 

Burntland pond, Albany, Ox. Co.. oi)en to ice fish- 
ing 15 

Burnt Meadow pond, Bro-wnfield, Ox. Co., open to 

ice fishing 1.5 

Buttermilk ponds. First and Fourth. Piscataquis 

Co., open to ice fishing 21 

C 

C pond, Ox, Co., tribs. closed 17 

Calf Pasture (pond) Som. Co.. spl. limit on 25 

Camp fires must not be left burning, &c 83-84 

Camping and kindling fires on wild lands, non- 
resident must have guide during certain months. 

while 69 

Camp Proprietors' Licenses 73 

Canaan lake. Knox and Waldo Cos.. tribs. closed 14 
Canaan lake, use of firearms upon and around 

prohibited except on rifle range 64 

Canada lynx, bounty on 55 

Cancel certificates, licenses or permits, commis- 
sioners may 76 



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Cape Elizabeth, Cumb. Co., hunting on certain 

lands in prohibited 63 

Capercailzie, protection of 62 

Caribou lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Caribou, protection of \ 45 

Cary lake, Littleton, Aroos. Co., closed to ice fish- \ 

ing 6 

Caucomgomoc lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Center pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Certificates and licenses expire with the calendar 

year 76 

Certificates or licenses may be revoked, how 76 

Chamberlain lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Cheney pond, Som. Co., spl. limit on 25 

Chapman pond, in Porter, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 15 

Charles pond, in Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 15 

Chemquassabamticook lake. Pise. Co., open to ice 

fishing 21 

Chesterville, Frank. Co., ice fishing law on waters 

in 8 

Chesuncook lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Churchill lake. Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing 21 

Cities, towns and plantations may elect I. F. & G. 

Wardens 77 

Citizens of Maine must have license to take 5 par- 
tridge, 10 ducks, and 10 woodcock outside the 

State 60 

Clay's pond in Fryeburg, Ox, Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 15 

Clearwater pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 

demons pond, The Two, in Hiram, Oxford county, 

open to ice fishing 15 

"Closed season" defined 3 

Closed season on fur bearing animals 52-53 

Closed season on game birds .' 59 

Closed season on gray squirrels 51 

Closed season on moose, caribou and deer 45 

Closed season on protected fish 4 

Closed season on rabbits 51 

Cobbosseecontee lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fish- 
ing 13 

Cobbosseecontee lake. Ken. Co., tribs. to, closed... 14 
Cochnewagon pond. Kennebec county, closed to ice 

fishing 13 

Cock-of-the-woods, protection of 62 

Colcord pond, in Porter, Oxford County, open to 

ice fishing 15 

Cold stream pond, Penobscot county, closed to ice 

fishing 10 

Collisions on inland waters, to prevent 82-83 

Commissioners may screen lakes or authorize same 

to be done " 42 

Commissioners may settle cases out of court, when 43 
Commissioners may take birds, fish and wild 

animals for scientitic, park and other purposes 38-30 

Commissioners of I. F. & G., powers and duties of 37-43 
Compass lake, Wash. Co., white perch taken in 

may be sold 31 

Compass lake. Wash, Co., taking of white fish in 33 



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Concorcl, Little pond, Ox. Co., spl. law on 18 

Constables are I. F. & G. wardens 77 

Coos brook, portion of, Frank. Co., closed 9 

Corinna stream, tr. to Lake Sebasticook spl. laws 

on 21 

Corporations, service of warrants on 81 

County attorneys must prosecute violations of 

inland fish and game laws 81 

Courts, jurisdiction of 80 

Courts must report prosecutions 82 

Cow moose, protection of 45 

Cow pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing and trolling only 

and spl. limit on 10 

Craig's pond, in Orland, Han. Co., closed to ice 

fishing 12 

Crocker pond, in Albany, Oxford Co., open to ice 

fishing 15 

Crocker pond, Som. Co., spl. limit on 25 

Crops, destruction of by deer 46 

Cross Island, Wash. Co., deer pro. on 45 

Crows, not protected 61 

Crystal lake, Knox county, tribs. closed 14 

Crystal lake, Knox county, closed to ice fishing... 14 

Cumberland county deer law 45 

Cumberland county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Cumberland county, special fish laws in 7-8 

Cunningham tn*ook. in Litchfield, Ken. Co., closed 14 

Cupsuptic lake, tribs., spl. laws on 18 

Curlew protected 59 

Cushman pond, Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 15 
Cushman brook, in Hebron, a tr. to Middle Branch 

Br., closed 17 

Cusk, genl. law on 32-33 



Daily limit on land-locked salmon, trout, togue, 

white perch and black bass under general law 
Daily limits, spl. in Rangeley and Belgrade 

waters, &c 

Daily limit on protected game birds 

Damage to crops by deer 

Dan Charles pond. Ox. Co., open to ice fishing.... 

David pond. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 

Davis pond, Penob. Co., closed to ice fishing 

Davis ponds. The Four, Guilford and Willimantic 

Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 

Davis stream. Pise. Co 

Davistown, special law on waters in 

Dead Cambridge river, Upton, Ox. Co., fly fishing 

only in portion of and certain tribs. closed 

Dead River pond, (See Saddleback Lake) .• . . . 

Dead stream pond, Som. Co.. open to ice fishing... 
Dealers in deer heads and skins miist be licensed 
Dealers in skins of fur bearing animals must be 

licensed 

Debsconeag lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing.... 
Deer cannot be sold or given away to be taken out 

of the State 

Deer, close season on in the several counties also 

on certain islands and other territory 



29 



29-30 

59-60 

46 

15 

13 

19-20 


21 
22 
12 


17-18 

8-11 

23 

74 


74-75 
21 


47 


45-46 



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Deer damaging growing crops may be killed..... 46 

Deer Isle, Han. Co., deer hunting prohibited in..\. 4.5 

Deer must not be enticed with salt 46 

Deer, a lumber camp can have only two in one 

season - 47 

Deer, resident can take but one out of State in one 

season 47 

Deer-skin dealers must be licensed 74 

Deer, transportation of by residents also under 

tag without accompanying same 4« -48 

Deer, transportation of by non-residents under 

hunting license tag G5-6G 

Deputy inland fish and game wardens, appoint- 
ment and duties of 77 

Deputy Sheriffs are I. F. & G. Wardens 77 

Dexter pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 2.3 

Dill brook, Pen. Co., closed 20 

Dip Nets • 32 

Disposition of seized game, birds and fish 78-79 

Disposition of penalties and fines 81 

Dixon brook, York county, closed 28 

Dobsis lake. Wash. Co., white perch taken in may 

be sold.. 31 

Dodge pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing and trolling 

only in, and spl. limit on 10 

Dodge pond, Frank Co., tribs. to closed ^ 8 

Dog, used for or found chasing moose, caribou or 

deer may be killed 47 

Dog which assaults a person or found wounding 

or killing a domestic animal may be killed 47 

Dogs, use of prohibited in hunting moose, caribou 

and deer 46-47 

Dole pond, York county, spl. law on 28 

Douglass pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 23 

Drury pond, in Temple, Frank. Co., open to ice 

fishing 8 

Duck lake. Pen. Co., a trib. to. clo.sed 20 

Duck Trap stream, Waldo county, spl. law on 27 

Duck Trap stream, tribs. closed 27 

Ducks, closed season on, daily limit, transporta- 
tion of 59-61 

Ducks, transportation out of State by resident 

under license 60 

Duties and powers of Commissioners, I. F. & G. 37-43 
Dutton pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on, tribs. and 

portion of outlet closed 8-9-10 

Duty of County Attorneys 81 

Dyer brook. Island Falls, Aroos. Co., closed 7 

Dyer's and Little Dyer's pond, Lincoln county, 

closed to ice fishing 15 

Dynamite, use of for destroying fish prohibited... 31 

E 

Eagles, protected 62 

Eagle Lake, Hancock County, tribs. closed 13 

Eagle lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

East Br. Presque Isle Stream, Aroostook Co 7 

East Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain) closed to 

ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 

Ebemee lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 



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Echo lake. Ken. Co.. closed to ice fisliinp,- 13 

l':(len. town of, certain lands in closed to hunting 63 
Eel, siicliers, yellow perch and horn pouts, permit 
must be secured before talving them with traps, 

&c 33 

Eels, taking of, in Machias River 33 

Eggs of wild birds protected 61 

Ellis pond. Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain) closed 

to ice fishing, tribs closed 13-14 

P^llis pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 23 

Ellis river, Oxford county, and tribs., spl. law on 18 

Embden pond (Great) Som. Co., open to ice fishing 2;'> 

Embden pond (Great) tribs. closed 24 

Enchanted pond, Som. Co., fly fishing only 26 

English sparrows protected 61 

Explanations 3 

Explosives, use of in taking fish prohibited 31 

F 

Fahi pond, Som. Co., open to Ice fishing 23 

Falsely assuming to be a Commissioner, warden 

or other official 80 

Farrington pond, in Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing ■ 15 

Federal law (Lacey act) 86 

Federal Migratory Bird laws, Maine laws conform 

to now — See Note 59 

Fifteen Mile stream and tribs,. Ken. & Waldo Cos., 

closed 14-27 

FINES for illegal taking or killing of: 

Fish .30-31-33-34 

Game ' 45-46 

F. B. Animals 52,53-54 

Birds 61-62 

Hunting in closed territory 62-63-6i 

Fines and penalties, collection and disposition of 81 
Firearms, Governor may prohibit use of in dry 

season 85 

Firearms, possession of, by non-resident and alien 

hunters, unlawful when 67-70-71 

Fires, camp, must be wholly extinguished 83-84 

Fires, Kindle, non-residents who, must have guide 

when on wild lands hunting or fishing 60 

Fires built on land of another 84 

First Buttermilk pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 21 

Fourth Buttermilk pond, Pise. Co., open to ice 

fishing 21 

Fish and Game Wardens are fire-wardens 80 

Fish, closed season on under general law 4 

Fish, daily limit and number of pounds which 

may be transported 29-33-34 

Fish Hatcheries, how established 42 

Fish may be taken under permit of Commissioners 

for scientific purposes 38 

Fish, sale and purchase of certain, prohibited 30-32 

Fish, spa-wn, use of in fishing, prohibited 31 

Fish, transportation of under tag 34 

Fish, transportation of when acompnnied by owner 33 

Fish wardens, appointed by towns and cities 77 



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Fishing for gain or profit prohibited 35 

Fishways 40-41 

Fish pond, Blacli Brook T., Som. Co., special law 

on 25 

Fish pond, Holeb, special limit on 25 

Fish pond, Moxie Gore, Som. Co., spl. limit on 25 

Fishing licenses. Non-resident 67-68-69 

Five Kezars, The, Oxford Co.. open to ice fishing 16 

Flatiron brook, Frank Co., closed 9 

Flying pond. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 

Flying pond. Ken. Co., tribs. closed, except portion 

of Sucker brook 13 

Four ponds, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 

Foxes, digging out of dens prohibited and close 

time on 53 

Franklin County Deer Law 45 

Franklin Co., genl. fishing law in 4-5 

Franklin Co., special fish laws in 8-9-10-11-12 

Fresh pond. North Haven, closed to fishing 14 

Frogs, taking of in certain Aroostook county 

waters restricted to domestic use in family of 

person taking same 7 

Fur bearing animals, protection of 52-53 

Fur bearing animals, dealers in skins of, must be 

licensed .* 74-75 

Fur farming, permits to engage in 39 

G 

Galf , use of prohibited 31 

Game and birds, live, may be taken for park pur- 
poses, &c 38-.39 

Game birds, daily limit on 59 

Game birds defined 61 

Game birds, protection and transportation of 59-60 

Game birds, sale and purchase of prohibited 60 

Game birds, transportation of out of State by non- 
resident 65-66 

Game birds, transportation of out of State by 

resident, under special tag 60 

Game farming, permits to engage in 39 

Game, Fish and Birds, Commissioners may take 
and give permits to take for scientific and park 

purposes, &c .38-39 

Game and Birds, transportation out of State by 

resident citizens 47-60 

Game wardens, I. F. & G., appointment and duties 

of 76 

Game wardens are fire wardens 80 

Garland pond. Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

Garland pond, Pise. Co., spl. law on 22 

Geese, protection of 59 

General law on protected fish 4 

George, Lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

George, Lake, Som. Co., tribs. closed 24 

Getchell brook, in Anson, Som. Co., closed 25 

Getchell brook, Pen. Co., portion of closed 20 

Oilman pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Golden plover, pro. of 59 

Goodwin's brook, Som. Co 25 



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Governor may declare close time and prohibit 

taking of firearms into woods in a dry season.. 85 

Grand Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Grand Lake and Grand Lake Stream, Wash. Co., 

special law on 27-28 

Grand Lake, Wash. Co., white perch taken in may 

be sold 31 

Grand Lake, Wash. Co., taking of white fish in 33 

Grandeur pond, Denmark, Oxford Co., open to ice 

fishing 15 

Grapnel, use of in fishing, prohibited • 31 

Gray squirrel, protection of 51 

Great brook, York Co., closed 28 

Great Embden pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 23 

Great Embden pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 24 

Great Moose Lake, Som. Co., open to ice fishing... 24 
Great Moose Lake, Som. Co., tribs. closed, except 

Main Stream &c., &c 25 

Great Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade chain), closed 

to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 

Grindstone pond, Frank. Co., spl. limit on 10 

Guides must be licensed 71 

Guides, non-residents must employ in certain 

cases 69 

Gull pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only in, and spl. 

limit on 10 

H 

Haley pond, Frank. Co., fly flshing only and spl. 

limit on 10 

Haley pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 15 
Half Moon (or Jenne) Pond, Ox. and Fk. Cos., 

open to ice fishing 15 

Half Moon pond, in Som. and Pen. Cos., open to 

ice fishing 24 

Hancock Co., deer law 45 

Hancock Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Hancock Co., special fish laws in 12-13 

Hares (or rabbits) , protection of 51 

Harlow pond, Parkman, Pise. Co., open to ice flsh- 
ing for pickerel 22 

Hatcheries, fish, how established 42 

Hawks, not protected 61 

Hay den lake, (or Wesserunsett), Som. Co., tribs. 

closed 25 

Hay den lake, (or Wesserunsett), Som. Co., open to 

ice flshing 24 

Heart's pond, in Orland, Han. Co., closed to ice 

flshing 12 

Hebron lake, Monson, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 
Helen pond, Pierce pond and Black Brook T,, Som. 

Co., fly fishing only 26 

Heron, blue, not protected 61 

Higgins stream, Som. Co., open only below first 

dam 25 

High pond, Pierce pond T., Som. Co., fly flshing 

only, spl. limit and closed during Sept 25-26 

Hogan pond, in Oxford Co., open to ice flshing 16 

Holland brook, Frank. Co., portion of, closed...... 9 



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Hooper pond, Greeue, Aud. Co., spl. law on, tiibs. 

closed a 

Hornpouts, license must be procured before taking 

with nets, traps, &c ^ 3o 

Horseshoe pond. Ken. Co., clo.sed to ice lishing 13 

Horseshoe pond, Stoneham, Ox, Co., open to ice 

ttshing IG 

Horseshoe pond, Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice hsh- 

ing IG 

Horseshoe pond, W, Bowdoin College T., Pise. Co., 

spl. law on 22 

Horseshoe pond, Som. Co., open to ice tishiug 24 

Hot Hole pond, tribs., in Orland, closed 13 

Hungarian partridge protected 02 

Hunter's and trapper's license 54 

Hunting accidents 84 

Hunting licenses, N. R. and alien 04-70 

Hunting prohibited on Kineo point 02 

Huston Big, pond, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 



Ice fishing under general law 4 

Identification of game, when transported by resi- 
dents 47 

Importation or introduction of wild animals un- 
lawful except under permit 62 

Indian pond. Greenwood, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

Insectivorous birds, nests and eggs protected 61 

Introduction of fish and animals prohibited except 

under permit 35-62 

Island pond and tribs., Ox, and Cumb. Cos., closed • 7-8 

Isle au Haut, Khox Co., deer protected in 45 



Jack lights, use of in hunting deer, moose and 

caribou, prohibited 46 

Jack lights, possession of illegal when 31-32 

Jackson pond. Concord, Som. Co., closed 25 

Jacksnipe protection of 59 

Jav Bird pond, in Hiram, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 10 

Jim Brook, Franklin Co.. spl. law on 10 

Jimmy, pond, in Litchfield, Ken. Co., tribs. closed 13 

Joe Mary Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Joe Mary Lake, Pise. Co., taking of white fish in 33 

Johnson brook, Som. Co., portion of closed 25 

John's Pond stream, Frank. Co., closed 9 

John's Pond spl. law on 10 

Johnson Mountain Township, Som. Co., spl. law 

on waters in 26 

Junkins brook, York Co., closed 28 

Junior lake, AVash. Co., white perch taken in may 

be sold *. 31 

Jurisdiction of Courts 80 

Jurisdiction of Inland Fish and Game Commission 3-37 



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Kamankeag brook, tr. to Kennebago stream, 

closed 9 

Kedar brook, Ox. Co., and tribs. closed 17 

Kennebago lake, Frank. Co., tribs. to closed 8 

Kennebago Lake, spl. laws on 10 

Kennebago Lake (Little) spl. laws on 10 

Kennebago Stream (Little) spl. laws on 10 

Kennebago Stream, spl. laws on 10 

Kennebec county, deer law in 45 

Kennebec county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Kennebec county, special fish laws in # 13-14 

Kennebec river, in Somerset Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 24 

Keyes pond, Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Kezar river. Ox. Co., certain tribs. closed 17 

Kezar Lake, spl. limit on bass 30 

Kezar Pond, Lower, spl. limit on bass 30 

Kezars, The Five, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Kezar, Lower, spl. ice fishing law 17 

Kezar lake, spl. ice fishing law, and tribs. closed 17 

Kimball pond. Pen. Co., closed to ice fishing 20 

Kineo point. Pise. Co., hunting on prohibited 62 

King pond, (Middle Kilgore), Som. Co., closed 25 

Kingfishers not protected 61 

Kingman Brook, Ox. Co., closed 17 

Kingsbury pond, Som. and Pise. Cos., open to ice 

fishing 21-24 

Kneeland pond, in Albany, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 

Knox Co., deer law in 45 

Knox. Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Knox Co., special tfsh laws in 14 

Kokadjo river, No. inlet. Pise. Co 23 



Labrador pond in Sumner, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 

Lacey Act (Federal law) 86 

Lakes and ponds, genl. law on fishing in 4 

Lake Auburn, And. Co., closed to ice fishing 6 

Lake Auburn, tribs. closed 6 

Lake George, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Lake George, Som. Co., tribs. closed 24 

Lake Kezar, Ox. Co., spl. ice fishing law on 17 

Lake Maranacook, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 

and tribs. closed 13-14 

Lake Hebron, Monson, Pise. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing • 21 

Lake Pennesseewassee. and Little Pennesseewas- 

see. Ox. Co., tribs. closed ' 17 

Lambert Lake. Wash. Co., closed to ice fishing, 

tribs. closed 27 

Landlocked salmon, daily limit 29 

Landlocked salmon, length of which may be 

caught 30 

Landlocked salmon, protection of under genl. law 4 



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PAGE 

Landlocked salmon, sale and purchase of pro- 
hibited ^^30 

Landlocked salmon, transportation of dd-i54 

Land may be taken for fish hatcheries 42 

Lang pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 25 

Lang stream and its tribs., Som. Co., closed...... 25 

Large Greenwood pond. Pise. Co., open to ice 

fishing •. 21 

Launches — and all boats except sail or row boats 
must not be used in hunting ducks or water 

fowl in inland waters or tidal waters 62 

Length of fish which may be taken under gen. law 30 

Lermond's pond, Knox. Co., tribs. closed 14 

Licenses : 

Camp Proprietors 73 

Dealers in deer skins and heads T4 

Dealers in skins of fur-bearing animals 74-75 

Guides 71-72 

Hunters and trappers 54 

Marketmen 75 

May be cancelled 76 

Non-resident fishermen 67 

Non-resident hunters 64 

Taxidermists 73 

To engage in game or fur-farming 39 

To ship fish without accompanying same 34 

To ship white perch taken in certain Wash, and 

Pen . Co. waters , . . . 31 

To ship game and birds without accompanying 

same 48-60 

To (for a non-resident) ship 1 pair game birds 

to his home 66 

To (for a resident) take birds out of state 60 

To take eels, suckers, hornpouts and yellow 

perch with traps, &c 33 

Unnaturalized, foreign-born, resident hunting... 70 

When all expire 76 

Lights required on boats 82-83 

Lily Pond in Rockport, Knox. Co., closed to ice 

fishing 14 

Limit daily on game birds 59 

Limit, daily on protected fish 29 

Lincoln county, deer law in 45 

Lincoln county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Lincoln county, special fish laws in 15 

Lines, number of which may be used 30 

Little Benson pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 
Little Concord pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., spl. 

law on 18 

Little Dyer's pond, Lincoln Co., closed to ice 

fishing 15 

Little Enchanted Pond, Som. Co.. fly fishing only 26 

Little Fish pond, (Alder Br. T.) fly fishing only 25 

Little Fish pond, Holeb, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 

Little Indian pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 
Little Labrador pond, in Sumner, Ox. Co., open 

to ice fishing 16 

Little Pennessewassee, tribs. closed 17 



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Little Pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 16 

Little pond, Rome, (of Belgrade Chain), Ken. 

Co., CLOSED TO ALL FISHING 14 

Little Pond, (of Belgrade Chain), Ken. Co., 

tribs. closed 13-14 

Little Pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 16 

Little river, and tribs., Old Orchard, York 

county, spl. law on perch in 28 

Little Sebago Lake, Cumb. Co., closed to ice 

fishing 7 

Little Turner pond, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 

Littlefield pond, York Co., closed to all fishing 28 

Live bait , 32 

Live fish and game, transportation of beyond 

limits of State 39 

Lobster lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Long pond, Livermore, And. Co., tribs. closed 6 

Long pond, Cumb. Co., special lavs^ on 4 

Long pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fi.sh- 

ing 16 

Long pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 

Long pond, in Porter, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 16 

Long pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade chain) closed 

to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 

liong pond, Oxford Co., spl. law on 18 

Long Pond, Long Pond PI., Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing 24 

Long Pond PI., Som. Co., spl. law on waters in 26 

Long Pond stream, Pise. Co., closed 22 

Long Pond stream. Pise. Co., a trib. to, closed 22 
Long Pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice fish- 
ing 16 

Long Pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing 28 

Loons not protected 61 

Loon lake, Rangeley and Dallas PI., Frank Co., 
fly fishing and trolling only and spl. limit on 10 

Loupcervier, bounty on 55 

Lovejoy pond. Ken. Co., spl. ice fishing law and 

spl. limit on 13-14 

Lovewell's pond, Fryeburg, Oxford Co., open to 

ice fishing 16 

Lowell brook. Pen, Co., closed 20 

Lower Cold Stream pond, Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing 23 

Lower Enchantec^ T., Som. Co., spl. law on 

waters in 26 

Lower Kezar pond, Ox. Co., spl. ice fishing law 

on 17 

Lower Kimball pond, Fryeburg, Ox. Co., open 

to ice fishing 16 

Lower Wilson pond. Pise. Co., tribs. closed 22 

Lumber camp cannot use more than 2 deer in 

one season 48 

Lumbert lake. Pen. Co., tribs. to closed 20 

Lunksoos pond. Pen. Co., closed to ice fishing 20 

Lynx, Canada, bounty on 55 

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Machias River, eel permits in 33 

Magalloway river, Ox. Co., certain tribs, closed, 

fly fishing only and spl. limit on portion of 17-18 

Main Stream, Somerset county, open to fishing 25 

Mapleton Branch of Presque Isle stream, Aroos. 

Co 7 

Maranacook lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing, 

tribs. closed 13-14 

Marketmen and provision dealers' licenses to sell 

deer meat 75 

Marshall brook, a tr. to Prestile St., Aroos. Co., 

closed 7 

Marshall pond, Ox. Co., tr. closed 17 

Martin (or Long) pond, Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing 24 

Massachusetts Gore, spl. law on waters in 12 

May field pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

McCaslin brook, in Penobscot, Han. Co., closed.. 13 

McGraw Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain), 

closed to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 

Mclntyre brook, York Co., closed 28 

McKenney pond, Holeb, Som Co., spl. limit on... 26 

McWain pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 

Meadow Brook and tribs., in Stockton Springs and 

Prospect, Waldo Co., closed 27 

Megunticook lake, Knox and Waldo Cos., use of 

firearms unlawful around and upon, except on 

rifle range 64 

Messalonskee lake. Ken. Co., see Snow pond 
Messabesic pond, York Co., closed to ice fishing 28 

Messer Pond, Penob. Co., closed to ice fishing. ... 20 

Metalluc brook, tr. to Upper Richardson lake, spl. 

law at mouth of 18 

Migratory Bird Law (Federal) See note regard- 
ing Federal law on page 59 
Middle Branch pond, York County, closed to ice 

fishing 28 

Middle Pond in Hiram, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Middle Kilgore (or King) Pond, Som, Co., closed 25 

Mill waste must not be thrown into certain 

waters 35-36-37 

Millinocket lake. Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing 21 

Millinocket lake, taking of white fish in 33 

Mink (and other animals and birds) may be 

destroyed by Commrs., when 39 

Minnows, general law on 32 

Mirror lake & tribs.. Ken, and Frank. Cos., closed 8-9 

Misery stream, Som. county, closed 25 

Moose pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Moose pond, Paris, Oxford Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Moose pond, Waterford, Oxford Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 

Moose protected until 1919 45 

Moose river, Som. Co., spl. law on portion of 4 

Moosehead lake, Som. and Pise. Cos., open to ice 

fishing 21-24 



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PAGE 
Moosehead lake, tribs. to closed, except Moose 

river 22 

Moose Hill pond, E. Livermore, And. Co., closed 6 
Mooseborn Stream, in Baring, Wasb. Co., portion 

of closed : 27 

Mooselookmeguntic lake, spl. law on and tribs. 

closed 8-17 

Morrill pond, Som. Co., open to ice fisbing 24 

Mosquito stream, Som. Co.,' closed 25 

Motor boats cannot be used in bunting sea birds, 

duck or water-fowl in inland or tidal waters 62 

Motor boats must be muflled 82 

Mount Desert Island, protection of deer on 45 

Mud Hen (bittern) not protected 61 

Mud pond, and tribs.. Ken. and Fk. Cos., closed 8-9 

Mud pond, Paris, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Mud pond. Ken. and Sagadahoc counties, closed to 

ice fishing 1.3-2:1 

Mud Pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Mud Pond, Tim Pond Town, Frank. Co., tribs. to, 

closed, spl. law on pond 8-11 

MuflJers required on motor boats in certain cases 82 

Munsungun lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 21 

Muskrat, protection of 53 

•Muskrats, taking of in Lower Kezar pond and ad- 
jacent waters prohibited 53 

N. 

Nahmakanta lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing. . . 22 

Narraguagus lake, Han. Co., closed to ice fishing 12 

Narrows pond. Ken. Co.. closed to ice fishing 13 

Nests of wild birds protected 61 

Nets cannot be used in taking birds 61 

Net, (other than dip net) possession of illegal 

when 31-32 

Nicatous lake, Han, Co., spl. law on outlet of 13 

Nichols pond, the outlet of, Som. Co., closed 24 

Night hunting prohibited 49 

Noiseless firearms, use of prohibited 49-50 

Non-resident guides, licensing of certain 72 

Non-resident hunting licenses 64-65 

Non-resident fishing licenses 67-68-69 

Non-residents must employ guides in certain cases 69 

Non-residents, transportation of game by 65-66 

Non-residents, transportation of fish by 67-68 

North Branch brook and tribs., Cumb. Co., closed 7 
North Branch of Presque Isle Stream, Aroos Co., 7 
No. Br. Dead River, Frank. Co., spl. law on por- 
tion of 11 

North Pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 9 

North Pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., open to ice Qsh- 

Ing 16 

North Pond, Woodstock, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

North Pond, Ken. Co., (of Belgrade Chain) closed 

to ice fishing, tribs. closed 13-14 

North Pond, Norway, open to ice fishing 16 

North Twin lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

North Twin lake. Pise. Co.. white fish in 33 

Norton pond, Knox Co., tribs. closed 14 



102 

PAGE 

Norton brook, Frank. Co., closed 9 

Noyes pond, Han. Co., closed to ice fishing 12 

Number of game birds which may be taken, had 

in possession or transported. in one day 59-60 

Number of lines which may be used 30 

O 

Oaks pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

O'Day (or Horseshoe) pond, Som. Co., fly fishing 

only 26 

Officers may arrest without warrant 78-79 

"Open season" defined 3 

Otter pond, Bridgton, Cumb. Co., closed 7-8 

Otter brook, Frank. Co., closed 9 

Overset pond. Ox. Co., spl. limit on 19 

Owls, not protected 61 

Ox Bow pond. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 

Oxford County, deer law •. . 45 

Oxford County, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Oxford County, special fish laws in 15-16-17-18-19 

P 

Palmer brook, trib. to Prestile stream, Aroos. Co., 

closed 7 

Palmer pond, Som, Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Panther pond, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Pappose Pond, Waterford, open to ice fishing.... 16 
Park purposes, animals and birds may be taken 

for, when 39 

Parker pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 

Parker pond, Ken. Co., tribs. closed 14 

Parkis pond, and tribs., Frank, and Ken. Cos., 

closed 8-9 

Parlin pond, Som. Co., tribs. closed 25 

Parlin Pond T., Som. Co., spl. law on waters in 26 

Parlin stream, Som, Co., spl, law on portion of. . , 26 
Parmachenee lake, Ox. Co., fly fishing only, tribs. 

closed ^. 17-18 

Participant in violation must testify 'when 81 

Partridge, Hungarian, protected 62 

Partridge (Ruffed Grouse) protection of and daily 

limit on, and transportation of 59-60 

Partridge, transportation of out of State by citi- 
zens of Maine under license tag 60 

Passadumkeag river (stream). Pen. and Han. Cos. 

portion of closed to ice fishing 19 

Pattee's pond, Ken. Co., tr. closed 14 

Peabody pond, in Naples and Sebago, Cumb. Co., 

closed to ice fishing 7 

Pemadumcook lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 
Pemadumcook lake. Pise. Co., taking of white fish 

in 33 

Penalties and fines, how recovered and disposition 

of . 81 

Penalties for destroying notices posted by Com- 
missioners 38 

Penalty for fishing in artificial ponds maintained 

by virtue of statutory permit 44 



103 

PAGE 

Penalty for injuring or destroying screen 42 

Penalty for falsely assuming to be an oflBcer 80 

Penalty for non-resident hunting or fishing with- 
out license 67-69 

Penalty for illegal killing of fish, game, birds and 
fur bearing animals — See "Fines" 

Penalty for guiding without a license 71-72 

Penalty for violating Rules and Regulations of 

Commissioners 38 

Pennesseewassee Lake, Ox. Co., tribs. closed, spl. 

law on outlet 17 

Pennessewassee, Little, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

Penobscot Co., deer law 45 

Penobscot Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Penobscot Co., special fishing laws in 19-20-21 

Penobscot lake, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 

Perch, white, accidentally caught, may be kept 

when 4 

Perch, white, daily limit on, and length of which 

may be caught 29-80 

Perch, white, protection of under gen. law 4 

Perch, white, sale and purchase of 30-31 

Perch, white, sale of. taken in certain Avaters in 

Wash, and Pen. Cos 31 

Perch, white, transportation of 34 

Permits may be revoked when 76 

Permits to take fish, game and birds for park, 

scientific, advertising purposes, &c 38-39 

Pheasant (all species except ruffed grouse) pro- 
tected 62 

Pickerel, genl. ice fishing law on 5 

Pickerel pond. Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Pickerel (or Reals) pond, Turner, And. Co., tribs. 

closed 6 

Pickerel pond, in Denmark, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

Piper pond. Pise. Co.. open to ice fishing 22 

Piscataquis County deer law 45 

Pise. Co., genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Pise. Co., spl. fish laws in 21-22-23 

Plains pond, in Porter, Ox. Co.. open to ice fishing 16 
Plantations may elect Inland Fish and Game 

wardens when 77 

Pleasant pond, Denmark and Rrownfield, Ox. Co., 

open to ice fishing 16 

Pleasant pond, Ken. and Sag. Cos., closed to ice 

fishing 13-23 

Pleasant pond, in Sumner, Ox. Co., open to Ice 

fishing 16 

Plover, protection of, daily limit, &c 59-60 

Plug fishing laws on Rangelev Lake and on Snow 

Pond of Relgrade Chain 29 

Plummer brook. Ox. Co., closed 17 

Pocassett lake. Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 

Poisoning of animals prohibited 55 

Poisonous substance, fish must not be killed with .31 

Police officers are wardens 77 

Pokumkus lake (or Compass lake), Wash""co' 

taking of white fish in . .............. . . .' 

19 



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Ponds and lakes, genl. law on fishing in 4 



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104 

Possession of firearms and fishing tackle by non- 
residents unlawful, when 67-69 

Prestile stream, tribs, to, Aroos, Co., closed....'.*."* 7 
Presque Isle Stream, portion of and certain triibs 

to, Aroos. Co., closed .. 6 

Prohibited methods of fishing ,[ 31 

Prohibited methods of hunting " 46-61 

Proctor pond, Albany and Stoneham, Ox. Co!,* opeii 

to ice fishing Ig 

Prosecutions and seizures must be reported'.".*.*.*.*.". 78-82 

Front's Neck, Cumb. Co., hunting prohibited on 63 

lurchase and sale of certain fish prohibited 30 



Quimby pond, Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. 

limit on 11 

R 

Rabbits (or hares), protection of 51 

Raccoons, protection of 53 

Ragged lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

Rangeley chain of lakes, spl. laws on 29 

Rangeley lake, plug fishing prohibited 29 

Rangeley lake, tribs. to closed 8 

Rangeley stream, spl. law on portion of. 11 

Rapid river, spl. law on 19 

Rattlesnake pond, in Brownfield, Ox. Co., open to 

ice fishing 10 

Rattlesnake pond. Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

Reports of prosecutions and seizures must be 

made 78-82 

Resident can take but one deer out of State in one 

season 47 

Resident must buy tag in order to take game birds 

out of State 60 

Resident must identify shipment of deer unless 

tagged with special shipping tags 47-48 

Richardson lake, special law on 29 

Richardson lakes. Upper and Lower, Ox. Co., tribs. 

closed 17 

Richardson ponds, E. and W., Ox. Co., spl. laws on 19 

Richardson ponds, E. and W., Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17-18 
Richmond's Island in Cape Elizabeth, Cumb. Co., 

hunting on prohibited 63 

Riparian proprietors 43-44 

Ripley (or Rogers) pond, Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing 24 

Rivers, general law on fishing in 4 

Roach river (see Kokadjo) 

Ross lake, Littleton, Aroos. Co., closed to ice 

fishing Q 

Ross pond, Rangeley, spl. law on 11 

Round Mt. Lake, Frank. Co.. spl. law on 11 

Round pond, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 

Round pond and the Logans or Lagoons on inlets, 

Frank. Co., fly fishing only and spl. limit on 11 

Round pond, in Greenwood, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 



105 

PAGE 

Round pond, in Greenwood, Ox. Co., tribs. closed- 17 

Round pond, Som. Co., open to ice flsliing 24 

Round pond, Livermore, And. Co., tribs. closed... 6 

Rowell pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Roxbury pond, in Roxbury and Byron, Ox. Co., 

open to ice fishing 16 

Ruffed Grouse, (partridge) protection of, daily 

limit, and transportation of 59-60 

Rules and Regulations may be adopted by Com- 
missioners when 37-38 

Rum pond, Greenville, Pise. Co., spl. law on 22 

S 

Sabbathday lake, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Saddleback lake, Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 

Saddleback lake, (or Dead River pond), Frank. 

Co., spl. law on 11 

Saddleback Mountain ponds, Frank. Co., fly fishing 

only and spl. limit on 11 

Sagadahoc Co., deer law in 45 

Sagadahoc Co., ice fishing law in and spl. laAv on 

Swan Island 4-5-23 

Sale and purchase of certain fish prohibited 30-32 

Sale of seized fish, game and birds 78 

Salt must not be used to entice deer 46 

Sand pond, Denmark, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Sandy pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Sandy river pond. Frank. Co., tribs. closed 8 

Sawdust and other mill waste must not be thrown 

into certain waters 35-36 

Sawyer's brook, in Fryeburg, Ox. and Cumb. Cos., 

closed .' 7 

Schoodic lake, Pise, Co., open to ice fishing 22 

Scotch Island, Wash. Co., deer protected on. 45 

Screening of lakes, Commissioners may authorize 42 
Search and seizure of fish, game and birds and 

protected wild animals 78-79 

Search warrants 78-79 

Sebago Lake, Little, Cumb. Co., closed to ice 

fishing 7 

Sebago lake, spl. law on 4 

Sebago lake, tribs. to, closed (except spl. law on 

Songo river), &c 7-8 

Sebasticook lake, Pen. Co., spl. perch law on and 

spl. law on certain tribs 20-21 

Sebasticook river. Pen. Co., portion of closed 20 

Sebec lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

Sebec lake, a trib. to, spl. law on 22 

Seboeis lake, Pise. Co., open to Ice fishing 22 

Secoad lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

Seine, use of in fishing prohibited 31 

Seized game, birds and fish, disposition of 78 

Seizure of birds, fish and game and wild animals 78-79 

Seizures must be reported 78 

Service of warrants on corporations 81 

Set lines, use of prohibited, except when fishing 

through ice 31 

Settlement of cases out of court 43 



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PAGE 

Seven Mile brook, in Ox. A Frank. Cos., portion of 

and tribs. closed 9 

Seven Ponds Township, spl. law on waters in 12 

Seven Pond stream, Fk. Co., spl. limit on 11 

Shagg pond. Ox. Co., spl. law on and tribs, closed 17-19 

Shaw lake, Pen. Co., a trib. to, closed 20 

Shell pond. Stow and Stoneham, Ox. Co., open to 

ice fishing- 16 

Sheriffs and deputies are wardens 77 

Ship Pond stream, Pise. Co., and tribs 22 

Shore birds, all, protected except black-breasted 
and golden plover, Wilson or Jacksnipe, wood- 
cock and greater and lesser yellowlegs 59 

Sibley pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Silencers on firearms cannot be used 49-50 

Slab City pond, Lovell, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Sleepy Hollow brook, Waldo Co., spl. law on 27 

Sleepy Hollow brook, tribs. closed 27 

Smelt brook, tr. to Cold. St. pond, Enfield, Pen. 

Co., closed 20 

Smelts taken in Sebago Lake waters 32 

Smelts taken in Swan lake 32 

Smelts, genl. law on 32-33 

Smith pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Snares, use of in hunting prohibited 46-47-61 

Snipe, protection of, daily limit, &c 59-60 

Snow pond, Ken. Co. (of Belgrade Chain) closed to 
ice fishing, tribs. closed except portion of Bel- 
grade St 13-14 

Snow pond. Ken. Co., plug fishing in for trout and 

land-locked salmon unlawful 29 

Somerset county deer law 45 

Somerset county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Somerset county, special fish laws in 23-34-25-26 

Song birds protected 61 

Songo pond, in Albany, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

tribs. closed 17 

Songo river, Cumb. Co 8 

Sourdnahunk lake, Pise. Co., spl. law on 22 

Southeast pond. Ox. and Cumb. Cos., open to ice 

fishing 16 

South pond in Greenwood, Ox. Co., tribs. closed 17 

South Twin Lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

South Twin Lake, Pise. Co., taking of white fish 

in 33 

Sparrows, English, not protected 61 

Spawn fish, use of for bait prohibited. .^ 31 

Spear, use of in fishing prohibited when 31 

Spear, possession of unlawful when 32 

Spectacle ponds, in Porter, The Two, opea to ice 

fishing 16 

Sporting camps in Me. Forestry Dist. unor. town- 
ships, must be licensed 73 

Spurwink, certain lands in closed to hunting 63 

Squawpan lake, Aroos. Co., inlet st. closed and part 

of E. Br. of said outlet 7 

Squirrels, gray, protection of 51 

Stafford pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Stanley ponds. The Three, in Hiram and Porter, 

Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 



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PAGE 

Staples pond, and its tribs., Frank Co., closed 8-9 

Starbird pond, Som, Co., open to ice fishing 2-1 

Stearns pond, Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice fishing 16 

Stetson Pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on waters in... 12 

Stetson Pond, Pen. Co., spl. law on 20 

Stonington, Hancock Co., deer protected in 45 

Stratton brook and tribs., Fk. Co., spl. law on 11 

Streams, general law on fishing in 4 

Stupefying or poisonous substances must not be 

used in taking fish 31 

Succor brook, Orland, Han. Co., spl. law on 1.3 

Sucker brook, Ken. Co 13 

Suckers, license must be procured before taking 

with trap or nets 33 

Suckers, taking of with spear during April and 

May 33 

Sunday is closed time on all wild birds and wild 

animals 48 

Sunkhaze stream and tribs.. Pen. and Hancock 

Cos.. spl. law on 20 

Swan Island, Sag. Co., fishing and hunting on por- 
tion of prohibited 23-45 

Swan Island deer hunting on prohibited 45 

Swans protected 59 

T 

Tag for transporting certain fish, game and birds 

without accompanying same 34-48-60 

Tag, resident may purchase to take game birds out 

of State 60 

Taxidermist's license 73 

Taylor pond, And. Co., tribs. closed 6 

Tea brook, Frank. Co., spl. law on 11 

Telos lake, Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

Temple pond, Moscow, Som. Co., closed 25 

Ten Thousand Acre pond, Som. Co., open to ice 

fishing 24 

Thomas pond, Cumb. Co., closed to ice fishing 7 

Thompson pond (And., Cumb. and Ox. Cos.) spl. 

law on 4 

Tilton pond, Ken. Co., closed to ice fishing 13 

Tim pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on 11 

Tim pond, Fiank. Co., tribs. closed 9 

Tim brook, Frank. Co., spl. law on 12 

Togue, protection of, daily limit, transportation of. 

sale and purchase of 4-29-30-33-34 

Towns may elect I. F. & G. wardens when 77 

Townsend brook, And. Co 6 

Transportation of deer by residents 47 

Transportation of fish, game and birds, when ac- 
companied by owner, also under special tag 

without owner accompanying same 33-47-60 

Trafton pond, in Hiram and Porter, Ox. Co., open 

to ice fishing 16 

Traps cannot be used for taking game or birds... 46-47-61 

Trap, use of in fishing prohibited 31 

Trapping law s 53-54-55 

Traps must be marked, may be seized when not 

marked 54 



108 

PAGE 
Traps must not be set within 25 feet of a muskrat 

house 53-55 

Trappers must visit traps 55 

Trawl, unlawful possession of when 32 

Trawl, use of in fishing prohibited 31 

Trespass law 83 

Tributaries defined 3 

Trout pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on 12 

Trout, length of which may be taken 30 

Trout number of which may be taken in one day 29 
Trout, protection of under general law and trans- 
portation of 4-33-34 

Trout, sale and purchase of prohibited 30 

Trueworthy brook, trib. to Prestile stream, Aroos. 

Co., closed 7 

Tufts pond, Frank. Co., spl. law on, tribs. to and 

portion of outlet closed 9-12 

Turtle Pond brook, in Penobscot, Han. Co., closed 13 
Turtle lake, Hancock Co., closed to ice fishing and 

tribs. closed 12-13 

Turner (Big) ponds, Som. Co., spl. limit on 26 

Twitchell pond. Ox. Co., tribs. to closed 17 

Two Spec pond, Waterford, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing • 16 

U 

Unnaturalized foreiga-born residents, certain must 

have hunting license 70 

Upper Cold Stream tract, Som. Co., spl. law on 

waters in 26 

Upper Dam, spl. law on river and on pools below 

dam at 19 

Upper Enchanted T., Som. Co., spl, law on waters 

in 26 

Upper Patten Pond brook, Hancock Co., closed 13 

Upper Wilson pond. Pise. Co., tribs. closed 22 

V 

Varnum pond, Franklin county, tribs. closed 9 

Vaughan stream. Pise. Co., closed 22 

Violators, arrest of 78-79 

Violette brook, Van Buren, Aroos. Co., closed 

above Hammond's Mill 7 

Virginia lake, Stoneham, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 

W 

Waldo county, deer law in 45 

Waldo county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

Waldo county, special fish laws in 26-27 

Wallace brook, Pen. Co., closed 20 

Walton's Mill pond, in Farmington, open to ice 

fishing 8 

Wardens, I. F. & G., appointment and duties of. . . 76 

Wardens, fire, I. F. & G. Wardens are 80 

Wardens, deputy, appointment and duties of 77 

Ward's brook and Ward's pond, Ox. Co., spl. laws 

on . , 19 



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PAGE 

Ware pond, Pen. Co., closed to ice fishing 19 

Warrants, service of, on corporations 81 

Warrants, wardens may arrest without 78-79 

Washington county, deer law in 45 

Washington county, genl. ice fishing law in 4^5 

Washington county, spl. fish laws in 27-28 

Washington county, white perch taken in certain 

waters in may be sold 31 

Weapons, concealed, dangerous or deadly, cannot 

be carried without permit 50 

Webb pond, Frank. Co., tribs. to, except portion of 

Alder brook closed 9 

Webber pond, in Sweden, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 

Webster lake. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

Weeks pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

Weir, use of in fishing prohibited , 31 

Wesserunsett (or Hayden) lake, Som, Co., open to 

ice fishing 24 

Wesserunsett (or Hayden) lake tribs. closed 25 

West outlet of Moosehead lake, portion of closed 25 
Whetstone brook, tr. to Kennebago stream, Frank, 

Co., closed 9 

Whetstone pond. Pise. Co., open to ice fishing 22 

White fish, general law on 32-33 

White's pond, Han. Co., tribs. closed 13 

White perch (see perch) 

Whitney brook, and tribs., Island Falls, Aroos. 

Co., closed 7 

Whitney pond, in Oxford, Ox. Co., open to ice 

fishing 16 

Wilber brook, Frank, Co,, closed 9 

Wild animals (except beaver) and wild birds 

found destroying property may be killed,,., 55 

Wild birds, other than game birds, protection of 

and nests and eggs protected 61 

Wild hares (or rabbits) 51 

Wilson brook, Ken. Co., and tribs., closed 14 

Wilson lake, Frank Co., a trib. to, closed 9 

Wilson lake. Ken. Co.. closed to ice fishing.... 13 

Wilson snipe, protection of, daily limit, &c 59-60 

Wilson Stream, Pise. Co., portion of closed 22. 

Woodcock, protection of, daily limit 59-60 

Woodcock, transportation of by residents and non- 
residents under license tag 60-65-66 

Woodduck protected 59 

Worthley pond, in Peru, tribs. closed 18 

Wyman pond, Som. Co., open to ice fishing 24 

T 

Yellow legs — protection of 59-60 

Yellow perch, must procure license before taking 

with traps or nets 33 

York county, deer law in 45 

York county, genl. ice fishing law in 4-5 

York county, special fish laws in 28 

York pond, York county, closed to all fishing . . 28 

Young's pond, Som. Co., fly fishing only 26 

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